Right now, I can't look in the mirror without calling myself stupid. I finally got around to removing the hard drive from my dead notebook computer and discovered I made a mistake when I bought the external hard drive enclosure.
My Ovation External Hard Drive Enclosure
What stupid mistake did I make? Well, before I tell you, I have to tell you that I only spent about $10 for the external hard drive enclosure. It even comes with RFID security.
I knew the external hard drive enclosure was designed for a 2.5 inch hard disk drive (HDD). What I didn't check was which kind of 2.5 inch HDD was required. You have the older IDE HDDs and the newer SATA HDDs and I just happen to have the older IDE version. Guess what version the external hard drive enclosure requires?
It wouldn't be so bad if the enclosure was big enough to hold the HDD along with an IDE to SATA adapter cable, but it isn't. It's a snug fit for the drive itself and I wouldn't even attempt to put the top of the enclosure on for fear of bending a bunch of pins.
External Hard Drive Enclosures and Hard Drives
I have plenty storage room in my house. In fact, I have empty wardrobe cabinets waiting to be filled with stuff I can't fit anywhere else. That's where this external hard drive enclosure is going. I will have to buy another one and make sure I get the right one this time.
Actually, I have a choice. I can buy an external hard drive enclosure to match the hard drive or I can buy a frame so I can mount it in my desktop computer, which already has a spare IDE cable slot. Since I already have two hard drives in the computer, totaling a terabyte in drive space, I really don't want to do that. I also don't want to deal with the extra heat it will generate.
No, I prefer an external hard drive enclosure. I can use a USB flash drive (the thumb drive kind) to move a lot files back and forth between my desktop computer and my netbook computer, but the space is limited. There's much more space on any modern HDD and in this enclosure, I probably wouldn't be moving files; I would probably use it for storing things that can be used on both computers (at different times, of course).
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