Like any true geek, I have a bunch of old hard drives laying around my office. It's a pain to install them in a system just to copy data to them or to get data from them, but this week I bought a very cool device from NewEgg. It's a small square adapter that has hard drive plugs around three of it's sides. One adapter for 2.5 inch laptop drives, one for 3.5 inch normal system drives (which also works in CD/DVD drives), and another for SATA drives. There is a power supply for the drive motor, since many 3.5 inch drives draw more that USB can supply. It's a BYTECC BT-300 USB 2.0 to IDE/SATA Adapter, and it's less than $25 at NewEgg.
This will make migrating stuff between computers a breeze. I wish I would have thought of this first.
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