WTB: Method to use a normal HD with a laptop?

[darkshadow1]

Hey everyone,

Just curious, but are there any ways to use a normal internal IDE hard drive (in my case a 40GB Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 40 drive) with an IBM Thinkpad?

I was thinking of some sort of external hookup via USB or serial...thanks!

Jason

 

[NiViK]

here is a link to a site which sells usb external boxes for drives

http://www.directron.com/usbbox.html


hope this helps...

NiViK

 

[Joony]

FIREWIRE!

 

[clutz123]

yeah, i would think USB would be a little slow for hard drive data transfer, especially for a newer HD. firewire would be much better!

also, maybe try posting/looking in the General Hardware Forum? good wealth of knowledge there

 

[darkshadow1]

Thanks for the replies.

Yeah, I guess firewire would be the way to go, but my lappy doesn't have it.

I guess I'll just sell it off soon and get me another laptop drive instead.

Thanks for the replies!

 

[therealchewbacca]

I am sure there are pcmia firewire cards aren't there?

 

[clutz123]

pcmcia firewire card: ~$100
firewire enclosure for regular HD: ~$100

what i do is just network my computer's together, if you don't need the HD to be portable...

 

[Smbu]

"pcmcia firewire card: ~$100"

Actually I think there was someone here last week selling pcmcia firewire cards for like $56, or somewhere around there.

 

[w3b]

You can hook it up using an external enclosure and connect it via PCMCIA. There are PCMCIA cards that act as hard drive controllers. Or you can use PCMCIA based SCSI. The choice is yours .