Pata caddies

Well both have wee 40mm fans which won't be all that quiet. Since the drives are PATA you'll not be able to hot swap them which then begs the question - do you need to swap drives that often?
 
No not really, caddy will be a replacement for a USB enclosure. Not all machines have SATA, and I have a couple of small PATA I don't use anymore so ideal as shuttling data back and forth.

Can I remove PATA caddy with the power on? If the PC is already on but no caddy, safe to insert and I would need to reboot? Not too bad either way, but a bit annoying if I have to power it down, insert/remove then power it back on again.
 
As RPS says, you can't hot-swap PATA so you do need to power down or at least restart to change drives. You'd be better off with a USB enclosure.
 
There's a rather convoluted option that might work. Icybox makes a PATA caddy with a SATA external interface. I don't know if that would let you hot-swap. Obviosly you'd need a SATA card if your mobo doesn't support it.

Alternatively, sell the drives and buy some 4GB USB keys.
 
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If that's the Icybox caddy I'm thinking of I saw a review at one point which said that if you put a PATA drive in you could only use the USB interface and if you used a SATA drive then only the eSATA interface could be used - bit daft if you ask me.
 
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