Spec me a caddy

IceShock · 27 Dec 2014 at 00:15

Howdy,

Alright, I have a few laptop HDD's laying around, and iv got a few blu-rays on my pc, and I just got a new Blu-ray player for xmas which has a handy USB port on it, and I just stuck a movie on a usb pen, stuck it in my bluray player and it worked! No idea, I guess technology is moving on faster than me.

So, rather than buying a new 500gb etc external portable hard drive for 40 pounds, is there a caddy that uses just USB power only that I can just simply plug a hdd into which I can simply just copy movies to from my pc, then plug into my blu ray player?

Thanks.

Edit: Just incase by reading this, if you are thinking yes, just a standard caddy or something, insert the hdd into it and use it what is wrong with that?

The reason im asking is because im clueless with caddys and stuff like that.

honestly, I haven't the foggiest, a hard drives a hard drive to me, stores stuff on it, and plug it in right and it works

haha. so yeah any help would be greatful

thanks

memyselfandi · 27 Dec 2014 at 08:02

You can't normally run a 3.5" disk off just USB power like you ask for in your second paragraph, 2.5" yes but 3.5" no. Caddies for 3.5" disks will have a power brick.

IceShock · 27 Dec 2014 at 10:30

I said laptop hdds, the small hdds

welshdragon · 27 Dec 2014 at 12:24

Inateck FE2005

Reasonably priced and quite quick too. Many caddies I find are dreadfully slow, this was a nice surprise.

lsg1r · 27 Dec 2014 at 14:07

there's a load to choose on ocuk site (i'd pick silverstone or icybox personally as I've used their 3.5inch caddies), most 2.5inch external drives/caddies can work without power although I'm not sure if a blu ray player would supply enough...

Whatever you do make sure you get one that can take the full height 2.5inch drive (9mm iirc)