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External Hard Drive Chassis

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I have a bunch of hard drives that I would like to mount outside of my computer. Do they make a device (IDE, SCSI, Firewire, USB) that I can put a bunch of hard drives into, and then hook that device up to a PC in order to use the hard drives? If not, whats the closest thing to what I want to do?
 
Mobile racks are one option. They are connected internally via your regular IDE ribbons.

There are also external cases which are truly external for SCSI, Firewire or USB connection. I saw some today on the shelf at CompUSA.

A mobile rack is a two-piece affair . . . the rack itself is mounted in a 5.25" drive bay and connected by IDE cable or SCSI cable to the appropriate controller. The drive is mounted in an inner tray which slides in/out and locks to make electrical contact. This lets you swap inner trays in a connected rack and makes for easy backup of the whole system as well as booting to different HDDs and OS's without having to set up multi-boot nonsense.

True external HDDs can be bought ready made . . . but the case housings let one use one's own surplus drives. The best link today is Firewire . . . tomorrow it might be USB 2.0 if the drivers ever get sorted out. 🙂
 
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