[Thinkpad] External USB drive enclosers for older TP HDD's

[Aryeh Goretsky]

Hello,

I have had good results using both the original IOGear's ION 2.5" hard disk
drive enclosure (which has both USB 2.0 and FireWire interfaces) and 
MacAlly's PHR250CC 2.5" hard disk drive enclosure (also USB 2.0 and 
FireWire).  I have
used both devices to hold the original hard disk drives from my T23 and T43p,
as well as 2.5" hard disk drives from Fujitsu and Toshiba without problem under
Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows XP.  For FireWire (my T23 only has USB 1.1
built-in) I use IBM's IEEE-1394 CardBus card.

CoolDrives has a number of interesting-looking enclosures at

   <http://www.cooldrives.com/25usbfircas.html>

but I have not used one from them before.

Regards

Aryeh Goretsky


At 04:41 PM 9/5/2006, you wrote:

>Message: 4
>Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 13:40:23 -0500
>From: "David Reid" <dwreid at hiwaay.net>
>Subject: [Thinkpad] External USB drive enclosers for older TP HDD's
>To: "'Thinkpad List'" <thinkpad at stderr.org>
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>Greetings All,
>
>I have a number of still lively hard drives I used with my A30p, one still
>brand new unused 80gb.
>
>Unfortunatly, their unusable in the T60 even with the 2nd HDD adapter.
>
>Can anyone recommend a good source for external HDD enclosers that would
>accept these drives and would allow connection via USB?
>
>Thanks,
>Dave
>
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