Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/08/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I have a Drobo. It works fine. My only problem is all down to their Macintosh programming in their Drobo dashboard, I know about it and work round it now. I assume their PC software works well. Frank On 2 Aug, 2009, at 04:07, Tina Manley wrote: > At 08:34 PM 8/1/2009, you wrote: > >> This is a worthwhile gadget to have. Similar ones are on sale at >> most electronics/computer stores and on the internet. Mine is >> called a "USB 2.0 Universal Drive Adapter" and is made by Newer >> Technology. I believe I paid about $24 for it. You can pull the >> disc drive from a computer or a broken housing, connect up the disc >> adapter plug and download the contents of the disc to any device >> with a USB plug. The real advantage, other than reading discs from >> failed computers, is that you can buy naked disc drives on the >> internet for less than $50 a terabyte and use them to store your >> data files. This was a technique I learned from Brian. I now have a >> shelf full of them. Each takes up less room than a VCR tape. Cheap, >> cheap. >> >> Incidentally, you can buy disc housings complete with power supply >> and output ports into which you can mount the disc drive of your >> choice for about $30 at any large computer store. Check out >> <www.microcenter.com >> > >> They are having a sale on this stuff. >> >> Larry Z > > When I put "USB 2.0 Universal Drive Adapter" in the search box on > Microcenter's site, the first thing that comes up is the Drobo box > that I ordered. I hope that's what it is and that it will work for > putting various disc drives in. If it does, I may have to buy one > for the farm and one for the house. I have lots of the external > housings made by Venus that hold both SATA and IDE drives. I've > used those to hook up various drives in the past, but this Seagate > doesn't fit any of them. I think they must be an older > configuration of SATA. > > Thanks, > > Tina > > Tina Manley > www.tinamanley.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information