HDD Enclosure

[Ducky duck]

My next project is to make an External HDD out of my Hitachi Laptop Hard drive.

Here is the harddrive specs, I want to make sure this enclosure would work with it.

Hitachi TravelStar 2.5 Inch

The HDD Enclosure

HDD looks like this v

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[Zeblote]

Only usb 2.0? That's going to be a slow external hdd.

[Ducky duck]

Only usb 2.0?

The HDD or the enclosure?


I seleted a different HDD enclosure, tell me what you think.

[Ducky duck]

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[Pentium]

If you want to use this drive you'll have to pick the enclosure you first chose, since the drive is IDE and the second enclosure is SATA.

Only usb 2.0? That's going to be a slow external hdd.

It's an old IDE drive, and those don't support transfer speeds over 133Mb/s, so you won't get any advantages from USB 3.

[McJobless]

Well, are you still going to have an internal drive?

[Tokthree]

Man, IDE drives still exist?

[takato14]

Man, IDE drives still exist?

yeah but I haven't seen one in a laptop for some 10 years now

[Ducky duck]

Well, are you still going to have an internal drive?

Yes

yeah but I haven't seen one in a laptop for some 10 years now

My laptop is from 2002-2004 I think.

[Becquerel]

yeah but I haven't seen one in a laptop for some 10 years now

What about SCSI?

[Dragonslayer182]

Yes

My laptop is from 2002-2004 I think.

Out of curiosity, what laptop model do you have? Judging from the hard drive, it looks like it's from a thinkpad.

[Ducky duck]

Out of curiosity, what laptop model do you have? Judging from the hard drive, it looks like it's from a thinkpad.

DELL Latitude D610

[Becquerel]

What Pentium Said is true. IDE's max rate is 133 Mb/s, and since USB 3 has a Max of 5 Gb/s, the extra data bandwidth wont be used so you wont see any boost in performance from a USB 3 Enclosure. I think the goes for USB 2.0. USB 2.0 has a max of 480 Mb/s, so you wont see any additional performance with 2.0 either.

[Ducky duck]

My HDD enclosure should arrive tomorrow, thanks for helping out guys.