Check McGlen Micro (www.mcglen.com). Last 6Gb disk I bought there (for a
Toshiba Libretto) was under $300.00
al
David A Kirkwood wrote:
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> Where can I buy a 8.X Gb laptop disk at a reasonable price? All of the
> prices I have seen
> are $900 for a 6GB.
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> Thanks,
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> Dave
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> "Laurent Bernard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 11/24/99 02:48:33 PM
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> To: Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED](bcc: David A
> Kirkwood/STP/Raytheon/US)
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> Subject: Re: HDD adapter to non-laptop machine
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> > I recently upgraded my tosh 4005CDS HDD from 3.9 to an 8g.
> > I now have the old (still working) HDD and would like to get some use
> > out of it.
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> > Anyone know if there is such a thing as an adapter of some kind to
> > allow a regular pc to access the laptop HDD. I've heard it mentioned
> > in discussions about security on laptops where someone always says
> > "They can just take the HDD and access it with an adapter"
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> Hello Harry,
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> I've been using such an adapter for quite a while and it
> has been working flawlessly. The adapter was under the denonimation
> 2.5 inches to 3.5 inches adapter.
> The only thing you have to check is that you put it in the right way:
> basically on the 2.5 inches hard disks there are pins for normal IDE,
> but there are also pins for the power supply, that means that
> if you put the adapter the wrong way you can send voltage to some pins
> that are not supposed to get voltage and fry your hard disk. Sorry for
> the lame explanation, but you get the idea.
> Therefore, when you get the adapter, ASK for the cabling.
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> Since I'm removing my notebook hard disk quite often to do some
> partition images, for me it was convenient to use a removable
> IDE enclosure, plug the adapter inside and then connect the hard disk to
> the adapter then close the IDE enclosure.
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> Hope this helps,
>
> Laurent
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> PS: FWIW, I bought my adapter for about $15.
