USB Devices

External HD’s are becoming more popular as a way to both transport and or backup your data. If you replace a drive in your pc or laptop but don’t want to entirely get rid of the drive you can purchase a HD Enclosure for your hard drive. They come in both 3 1/2″ and 2 1/2″ size enclosures. Place your old drive in the enclosure and simply plug in the enclosure USB interface to your pc or laptop and have both the internal and external drive available to you. Some enclosures even utilize hot-swap technology which means you don’t have to shutdown or disconnect your connection to change out the drives.
You may just want to temporarily use the enclosure to transfer data to your new hard drive. With the hard drive outside of your computer or laptop there are no IDE or SATA cables to plug into. The external drive enclosure resolves this external hard drive problem. It converts the internal drive to an external USB Hard Drive.
Old drives or new, HD Enclosures are an economical way to add external storage to your pc’s or laptop’s.