Today while at my friends house I completely dismantled his bricked laptop, and made off with some loot! A floppy drive, a DVD drive, some laptop ram, a tiny fan, a weird laptop heatsink, and a 40GB 2.5" HDD (Yay!)
So now I wanna put this HDD in an external enclosure and use it for carting around files and backups. Problem is I don't know what kind to buy.I looked up the model number (Toshiba MK4018GAP) and it calls it an IDE drive. And then it calls it a ATA-5 drive... I'm not too familiar with these older standards, so I'm a bit confused. Help?
Pics: (Sorry, I know they're way bigger than they need to be but my webcam drivers are bugging out on me and I'm too lazy to resize them in paint.net)
[img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1471912/HDD/Picture%202.jpg[/img]
[img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1471912/HDD/Picture%203.jpg[/img]
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It [b]looks[/b] like I could use this: [url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817182145[/url]
If I picked up one of these: [url]http://notebookcables.stores.yahoo.net/44pinmalidc2.html[/url]
But with the extra length, I'm not sure the drive would fit in the case.
Does anybody know of any external enclosures that have a male IDE interface?
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Picture of the loot, for shits n' giggles.
[img_thumb]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1471912/HDD/Picture%205.jpg[/img_thumb]
That end piece should pop off exposing only the pins, then yes that external enclosure should work. Haven't really worked with ATA-5 so you might want a second opinion.
[quote]So now I wanna put this HDD in an external enclosure and use it for carting around files and backups. Problem is I don't know what kind to buy.I looked up the model number (Toshiba MK4018GAP) and it calls it an IDE drive. And then it calls it a ATA-5 drive... I'm not too familiar with these older standards, so I'm a bit confused. Help?[/quote]
Basically, IDE and ATA/PATA (ATA and PATA are basically the same thing) are extremely similar interfaces, but IDE was the precursor to ATA.
looks like a hard drive that could go in my HDD enclosure.
[img] http://images.highspeedbackbone.net/skuimages/large/K450-2520-main01-mpl.jpg[/img]
kingwin hard drive enclosure
But IDE is generally the same thing as ATA/PATA.
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Fucking automerge
[QUOTE=M2k3;22743971]That end piece should pop off exposing only the pins, then yes that external enclosure should work. Haven't really worked with ATA-5 so you might want a second opinion.[/QUOTE]
Oh my god, you're right, I feel like such an idiot right now. With a little prying the end piece came right off.
[img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1471912/HDD/Picture%206.jpg[/img]
And thanks for the info on IDE vs ATA/PATA everybody.
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