putting external hard drive into a pc

fat-600 · 2 Sep 2008 at 20:19

Hey there, I got some Maxtor external drive, I never move it anywhere or anything it’s just holding my music collection and movies, and its allways being used, so not much for "backup" use

Is there any benefit to removing it from its caddy and putting it into my pc?

As far as I am aware it’s IDE, so will it be ok to set it as slave and plug it into the IDE cable that my CD rom drive is attached to?

thanks

Slashiem · 2 Sep 2008 at 20:24

Yes, should be fine.
I would think it would be faster than the USB connection, not not sure!
Personally i wouldnt bother if it means destroying the encosure as i know some dont come apart easily and cant put that back together.
In the end i wouldnt bother as it is more effort and the IDE cable is huge and ugly.

~Slash

fat-600 · 2 Sep 2008 at 20:25

i pulled the caddy apart and managed to put it back to gether

as i allready have the IDE cable in i might as well try it...

thanks for that slash

Namistai · 2 Sep 2008 at 20:28

You shouldn't see any speed difference from having it on USB afaik - the bandwidth of USB 2.0 is enough for any external hard drive. No major advantage either way apart from space saving really

fat-600 · 2 Sep 2008 at 20:33

oh sweet, might as well just do it tomrrow as i keep pulling the power lead out of it!

thanks guys

Namistai · 2 Sep 2008 at 20:36

Off topic, but I'm intrigued by your sig!!!

0-100 in 6.7seconds in that thing? I like!

fat-600 · 2 Sep 2008 at 20:39

when it stays on the ground!

totoro · 3 Sep 2008 at 07:57

I bet the moment you remove it from the caddy and install it, you will need to shift some files or something to a mates house

I'd keep it in the caddy myself.