[ILUG] Re: Suggested USB(?) PATA external HDD drive enclosures/docking and Irish(? French? EU?) vendors?

[Brian Foster]

> Try amazon and search for "SATA to IDE adapter" - would that do the
> trick?

 Possibly not.  I'm not very interested in an internal(-ish)
 mounting for the drive.  A (robust?) external mounding, so
 I can (later) use it as a removeable (read: off-site and/or
 secured) backup medium sounds much better.

 Also, and I probably should have mentioned this, I've got a
 brand-new, as in still shrink-wrapped, identical 2nd 250GB
 PATA HDD, increasing my interest in an approach which could
 double as a removable secured robust backup.

> I got a [ NEON dual docking station from MemoryC ]
> recently and have not had any issues.

 Yes, that unit (and site) did catch my attention before I
 posted.  My concern with the unit is some reviews I found
 suggested the build-quality is poor.  What's your opinion?

 In addition, it may be overkill, supporting SATA plus a
 variety of memory cards as well as PATA.  Nice points are
 it supports both 2.5" and 3.5" drives (and it may be made
 in Ireland (not sure!)); and, being a docking station, it
 _should_ be very easy to just pop in the “other” PATA HDD
 (useful for various backup strategies).

cheers!
	-blf-

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