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Is there a special 2.5inch HD cable/adapter to connect 2 drives together charlie.eng@gmail.com 10-22-2006
Posted by charlie.eng@gmail.com on October 22, 2006, 2:52 am
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 Has anyone seen an adapter or cable that would marry two 2.5inch hard
drives as master & slave stacked on top of each other and plug back
into a laptop harddrive slot? I have a Thinkpad600E and was looking to
add more disk space. This may mean a special caddy adapter that
handles a master and slave 2.5inch drives.


Posted by Hertz_Donut on October 22, 2006, 8:40 am
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> Has anyone seen an adapter or cable that would marry two 2.5inch hard
> drives as master & slave stacked on top of each other and plug back
> into a laptop harddrive slot? I have a Thinkpad600E and was looking to
> add more disk space. This may mean a special caddy adapter that
> handles a master and slave 2.5inch drives.
>

Why on earth would you want to do this? They would not fit inside the case.
You can either buy a larger capacity HDD and replace the one inside the
lappy, or buy an external USB drive. I have a Seagate 160GB USB drive that
is smaller than a paperback book and is bus powered.

Bobby



Posted by BillW50 on October 22, 2006, 1:01 pm
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> Why on earth would you want to do this? They would not fit inside
> the case. You can either buy a larger capacity HDD and replace the
> one inside the lappy, or buy an external USB drive. I have a Seagate
> 160GB USB drive that is smaller than a paperback book and is bus
> powered.

Ooooowwww.... bus powered! :)

--
Bill

Posted by Hertz_Donut on October 22, 2006, 5:16 pm
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>>
>> Why on earth would you want to do this? They would not fit inside
>> the case. You can either buy a larger capacity HDD and replace the
>> one inside the lappy, or buy an external USB drive. I have a Seagate
>> 160GB USB drive that is smaller than a paperback book and is bus
>> powered.
>
> Ooooowwww.... bus powered! :)
>
> --
> Bill

Beats having to drag a brick along that weighs three times what the drive
does...

Honu




Posted by SMS on October 22, 2006, 6:06 pm
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charlie.eng@gmail.com wrote:
> Has anyone seen an adapter or cable that would marry two 2.5inch hard
> drives as master & slave stacked on top of each other and plug back
> into a laptop harddrive slot? I have a Thinkpad600E and was looking to
> add more disk space. This may mean a special caddy adapter that
> handles a master and slave 2.5inch drives.

Very strange, but as long as you don't mind hard drives sticking out the
bottom of the notebook, it can be done.

You can buy a 3 Way 44 Pin 2.5 IDE Hard drive cable, though I've only
seen them on eBay.

This assumes that the 600E can supply enough power for two drives,
requires that the notebook hard drives are able to be jumperable for
master and slave, and that the BIOS can handle two drives. I've used
such a device in the past, but only in a laboratory setting.

Not sure what size drive the 600E can handle, it's pretty old, but you
could buy a 40GB or so notebook drive for less than it would cost you to
kludge something together. If it has a USB, you could use the Apricorn
case and software to ghost the drive, then put the new drive into the
Thinkpad. I've used their Parallel IDE product, and it worked well.

I don't think an external USB drive is a good idea because the 600E is
not USB 2.0.


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