Associate
- Joined
- 11 Mar 2004
- Posts
- 636
The 120gb IDE hard drive on my shuttle is filling up, and I want to buy an external USB solution. But actually, I'd also like to replace the existing 120G Hitachi drive with a larger samsung spinpoint one (250-400GB) because the spinpoints are renowned to be quieter.
I was thinking therefore, of doing the following:
1 - get ICYBOX caddy
2 - get SAMSUNG IDE drive
3 - replace the hitachi drive in my shuttle with the samsung
4 - use the hitachi in the icybox.
5 - install linux on the new samsung
I intend to clean format the hitachi drive after I've transferred the data onto my samsung.
The thing is, will I be able to access the data on the hitachi drive simply by putting it into the icybox considering it currently has WinXP installed (ie it is not a simple formatted data drive) ?
Also, I'm choosing the icybox as it is the one being recommended here - but does is it fanless?
Many thanks.
I was thinking therefore, of doing the following:
1 - get ICYBOX caddy
2 - get SAMSUNG IDE drive
3 - replace the hitachi drive in my shuttle with the samsung
4 - use the hitachi in the icybox.
5 - install linux on the new samsung
I intend to clean format the hitachi drive after I've transferred the data onto my samsung.
The thing is, will I be able to access the data on the hitachi drive simply by putting it into the icybox considering it currently has WinXP installed (ie it is not a simple formatted data drive) ?
Also, I'm choosing the icybox as it is the one being recommended here - but does is it fanless?
Many thanks.