Cheap Harddrive Selector

[systemjockey]

Tigerdirect has a nice cheap harddrive selector if you need one. The only other selector is the Trios which is ugly as sin. There's a review at Tom's Hardware and it sounds pretty good. The only caveat is that you can't have a master and slave set up, but I'm running two separate drives. One has ME and one has XP. Anyone else hear anything about this one?

 

[KeinoDoggy]

Just a suggestion but when I want to boot from my second drive I go into the the bios and change the boot order. Takes less than a minute and the other drive becomes the slave.

 

[Davemeister]

nice find. a little simpler and quicker than setting the bios each time. if they stuck 2 usb ports on that panel too, I'd be all over it. gonna have to think about this one...

 

[meefmah]

I have the NickLock connected to two Seagate Barracuda ATA IV. Without a jumper these drives default to slave. The switch closes the jumper on drive 1 making it the master and opens the jumper on drive 2 making it the slave. Flip the switch to the other side and the opposite happens. Set the switch in the middle and neither drive will boot. Simple, elegant and easy to install. It mounts in an empty 3.5" external bay. edit: Forgot to tell you it was $20us+$8ship and the switch has a keyed lock.