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Hard Drive Enclosure


raymac46

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After I replaced the mechanical hard drive in my Toshiba netbook with an SSD, I was left with a perfectly nice functioning 250GB Toshiba laptop drive.

Rather than use it as half a set of bookends or a paperweight I decided to invest in a low cost aluminum drive enclosure and have a portable USB drive.

I got a Vantec Nexstar drive enclosure from my local computer store. I went for the deluxe CX model ($3 extra) mainly because it includes a metal caddy tray which is attached to the SATA interface.

It's pretty easy. Just use the supplied mounting screws to attach the drive to the caddy tray, insert into the enclosure, secure the caddy with a couple more little screws and plug in the USB cable. There is a double USB connector to plug into the PC if you need additional power for a higher speed drive, but one USB plug did the job for me.

When I plugged it into my Windows 10 desktop, the drive wasn't recognized at all.

DUH. I forgot it was now a Linux drive with EXT4 formatting. So I took it down to a Linux box and reformatted it as NTFS. The Windows machine now saw it and I used it to back up my photos docs and music just in case I ever get hit by a Cryptolocker worm (perish the thought.) I'll keep my backed up files offline and disconnected.

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