[GLLUG] USB drive caddy?

[Sharon Kimble]

Jan Henkins via GLLUG <gllug at mailman.lug.org.uk> writes:

> Hello Sharon, 
>
> It seems to me that you want to access these drives on an ad-hoc basis, so
> surely you want an adapter rather than an enclosure? If this is the case,
> then I would recommend an adapter from StarTech, which you can find on
> places like Amazon by searching for "StarTech.com USB 3.0 to SATA or IDE
> Hard Drive Adapter" or something similar. While I cannot recommend a
> specific piece of hardware (my model isn't in production any more), pretty
> much everything I have bought in the past by StarTech just worked, and in
> some cases still works.
>
>
> Regards, 
> Jan Henkins 
>

Thanks Jan. I read the reviews and it seems like it could do the job, so
if plan a fails then I'll sort out the finance for it, and its now on my
wish list for future usage.

Thanks
Sharon.

>
> On 25 Jul 2016 18:18, Sharon Kimble via GLLUG <gllug at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Can anyone recommend a USB drive caddy that can read primarily IDE 
>> drives, and a couple of SATA drives please? It must be able to be 
>> recognised by Debian 8, and able to read the IDE drives. 
>>
>> I have about 15 IDE drives that I want to access, and a couple of SATA 
>> drives. 
>>
>> I have tried one from maplins which was able to read the SATA drives 
>> very easily but it wasn't able to access the IDE drives at all. 
>>
>> Thanks 
>> Sharon. 
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