Does Such A Piece of Hardware Like This Exist?

[KrispyKremer]

Is there a device that will allow you to take an ide hard drive and use it as an external drive with a firewire connection?
I'd like to be able to take an ide hard drive and easily transport it to another computer at a separate location. This would be a data drive only, not one with an OS on it.
Basically I'm looking for an "internal ide hard drive" converter/box to an "external firewire connection". Any such device exist?
Thanks in advance.

 

[circut16]

You can buy external fiewire kits that convert an ide hard drive
but then you need a IEEE 1394 adapter, unless you have one built in
You can also buy external usb 2.0 kits, you still need an adapter though.

 

[KrispyKremer]

Wow, thanks for the quick response.

I already have firewire connections on my machine - is this what you mean by needing an adaptor?

With these connections I should be able to connect an external firewire kit/cable (with the ide drive inside) directly to the machine and access the drive, correct?

 

[circut16]

No, not realy
the drive would be external only in this case
If you want to share a hard drive on another computer within 300 feet then you should use Ethernet

 

[zzzz]

here is one of such device.

 

[SmirnoffIsTasty]

Wow, that's pretty sweet.

 

[Utterman]

Best Buy also sells one for $99 made by ADS tech HERE. Wouldn't mind having one of these for plug and play storage.

 

[KrispyKremer]

Some pretty cool options here. Thanks guys.