topic Re: HDD Enclosure or Docking Station in Computers & Electronics

HDD Enclosure or Docking Station

poison_ivys_pen — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 09:57:28 GMT

Need information on which is best to support and old hard drive in a machine which I no longer use but have numerous files on the HDD I'd like to keep.

Would a HDD Enclosure be better or a HDD Dock.

It's only a 80gig HDD but I have a lot of stuff on it I want to keep from an old XP Comp.

I want to ditch the rest of the Comp but want to keep the HDD from it so am looking for the best option other than me transferring off onto my portable HDD which I use for other files.

Re: HDD Enclosure or Docking Station

kopenhagen5 — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 10:44:51 GMT

I bought a 1 TB external hard drive for about 100 dollars. More space than I could ever use, so only need 1 extra drive for everything. JMO.

Re: HDD Enclosure or Docking Station

rogevibe — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 08:03:12 GMT

Hi , if converting an internal hdd to external removable is better to use an enclousure because internal drives are generally not safe to casually handle - prone to static damage if the exposed circults underneath are touched

Also I suggest delete the old Windows folder - not good to have 2 sets of system files accessable by running processes

Re: HDD Enclosure or Docking Station

patchoo78 — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 09:18:58 GMT

You could just plug the old hard drive into your new PC as a slave and have the new HD as the master.. You just need to delete the old windows files