02-20-2010, 06:31 AM
I bought a "just cable doohickey" for $14 to demystify a couple of old IDE drives. It worked O.K., but hooking up that mess of cables is pretty inelegant. Probably easier with eSATA (which I didn't try), but the power cable on the IDEs is so tight that it makes the whole ordeal pretty unpleasant. Turns out I had already wiped all four of those drives I was trying to demystify, so I was slightly less disappointed than Geraldo Rivera when he opened that safe. All my new drives are eSATA, so the cable is going back and I'm going to use the dock I got in the New Egg Spinpoint deal instead.
There are many similar generic drives that probably work just as well, but $15 for the BlackX is money wel spent. Being able to swap drives this easily feels like a luxury. They pop in and out just like a toaster. But with no crumbs or twist-ties.
There are many similar generic drives that probably work just as well, but $15 for the BlackX is money wel spent. Being able to swap drives this easily feels like a luxury. They pop in and out just like a toaster. But with no crumbs or twist-ties.