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Making an external drive

PRB

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I have a 250 GB SATA2 drive, from my old computer. Does Best Buy (or somebody) sell "devices" that will let me use this drive as an external USB drive? I'd like to use it for my music collection at work, but I'd need a case or adapter that would accept a "normal" drive, and let me connect it to a computer via USB. Off to do some Googling...
 
I've been using that docking station for about a year now. I have the dual-slot version though, so I can "plug-and-play" two drives at once. Mere seconds after dropping a drive into one of the slots, it will be automatically connected and show up as a new drive letter in Windows Explorer.
 
Yea! I helped someone!

Once in a while I actually get a few neurons to fire correctly and come up with good information. Once in a while, mind you, so don't expect this to happen again any time soon! :icon_lol:
 
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Best part was I was able to get all my FSX screen shots from the "My Pictures" folder (this was the C: drive in the old machine) as well as the logbook, and some flight plans. Then I formatted the sucker.
 
While obviously not quite as fast as internal drives using the MB's highspeed bus, the USB 3.0 connection is quite fast. I have two 1T drives who's only purpose in life is to receive a daily byte-for-byte backup of my development files every night while I sleep. :)
 
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