Make Your Old Internal Drive Your New External Drive
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Make Your Old Internal Drive Your New External Drive
So you upgraded the hard drive in your computer and do not know what to do with the old drive now? What do you do? Throw it away? Definitely not. Do yourself a favor and pick up a hard drive enclosure. These are small housing devices, usually made from aluminum, that can turn your old internal drive into your new removable storage.
These enclosures come in three sizes, depending on the hard drive they are about to house. You can purchase a 2.5-inch, 3.5-inch or 5.25-inch model. Then secure the old drive in your new enclosure and you can connect it to other machines through either USB 2.0 or Firewire ports for speedy interfaces.
Hard drive enclosures come in different colors, shapes, and sizes so you can get any style that suits you. They are lightweight and portable computer storage so you can take them anywhere. TigerDirect.com carries them for both PATA and SATA hard drives, so there is one that will work with whatever drive you have. A $20 enclosure can save you from losing an entire hard drive.
