which caddy to buy

tinner777

Hi,

just blown my external hard drive, put wrong adaptor in, so have taken hard drive out of plastic case. Now i need to know which usb hard drive caddy to buy? would it be a sata 3.5?

cookie1977

On a separate note I did this (well my wife did) to my external hard drive and I returned it to Western Digital and they replaced it for me foc (except for shipping back the old device).

I dont think another housing will make your existing hard drive work. I would have thought that everything was connected to the one drive so when you blew it you blew the drive board no?

tinner777

apparently not mate, just the board on the power supply, which i've disconnected

tinner777

Is this possible?

ricman

just get a sata caddy,try and get a plastic one,maplins 15 euro,
see here,http://www-947.ibm.com/support/entry/portal/sata2.jpg ,metal cases can short out the drive if they touch the pcb underneath.
see http://www.hothardware.com/articleimages/Item1019/wdfMobile_SATA_BEVSd.jpg
is your drive like this picture.above,
chances are your drive is ok.

tinner777

thanks