Hello,
I happened upon this item on eBay when looking at somone's feedback. The auction is long since finished but the device looks like a real money saver.
HDD/CD/DVD USB 2.0 ADAPTER XP Item number: 2784837968
It allows you to take a regular internal harddrive and make it an external one. You plug the one end into the HD and the other in to the 2.0 USB on your PC.
You can pick up used, "outdated" HDs for cheap, each in the tens of GBs. The device truely looks like a money saver.
Regardless of what it says in the specs I have some questions for those who may have tested this in the real world.
1) Does this really work? I don't need something that will not work perfectly on my PC. I am not a PC wiz and want something that is 100% reliable, worry free plug and play, with no tinkering.
2) My current PC was bought new in late 2000. It has first generation USB 1 inputs. This is a USB 2.0 gadget. Will I still be able to use my existing USB 1 inputs? Specs say it works with 1.1.
3) Are there any pros and cons that I should also have to consider?
I want to start doing some 24 bit analog>digital transfers sometime this year and got to thinkning that I may be able to gut out and fill my old 1998 tower, somehow link a bunch of used HDs together, power all with the tower's power supply and USB the whole thing to my existing PC.
Can it work?
Thanks in advance for advise, replys.
Darren