External/Internal Harddrive

Mitch Connor

First off - sorry if this is in the wrong place....

OK, here goes: I am lookingh to get a new hard drive for my computer. I don't know if my computer will take a second hard drive internally and i don't know how to find out so i am going to get an External Hard dive to be on the safe side. The problem is that external drives cost a good bit more. I have been told there is a device you can get that you can plug an internal drive into and treats it as an external drive. Aldi or Lidil were selling them a while back. Does anyone know what they are called or where i could get one? Do they even exist?

Shiny

Yeah you are talking about a IDE to USB converter.

But this would make more sense to buy:


http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.asp?sku=123721&cks=PRL

It is best to get an external hardrive case and then a normal
hardrive and put the hardrive into the case yourself.

Chalk

aldi on parnell st. still had a few of the external drives left yesterday.

250gig for 130eu iirc

Mitch Connor

Chalk wrote:

aldi on parnell st. still had a few of the external drives left yesterday.

250gig for 130eu iirc

cheers - the girlfriend has been sent on a mission to pick it up for me. what does iirc mean?

Chalk

if i remember correctly

Mitch Connor

Chalk wrote:

if i remember correctly

ah, learn something new everyday! :cool:

Tiffany

Chalk wrote:

aldi on parnell st. still had a few of the external drives left yesterday.

250gig for 130eu iirc

Do you think there's anymore available? Or anywhere else in town that sells similar? I'm looking for one myself, cheers.

Chalk

only one way to find out

aldi get more in roughly every 3 months