Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/08/02

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Subject: [Leica] Disc universal drive adapter
From: Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com (Frank Dernie)
Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2009 10:34:15 +0100
References: <8CBE1201F52D7E1-20D8-3613@MBLK-M30.sysops.aol.com> <200908020307.BSV81468@rg4.comporium.net>

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
>
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Message from images at comporium.net (Tina Manley) ([Leica] Disc universal drive adapter)