[Ham-Computers] External IDE Drive "holder"?

[Ron Youvan]

KD7JYK DM09 wrote:

> On an investigations show last night, I caught glipses of an external IDE
> hard drive reader.  It was an external box about the size of three beta
> cassettes in size, an IDE hard drive was plugged into the TOP of the unit to
> be read.  This was NOT so much an external hard drive holder as a reader for
> quick swapouts, the drive was junk chunked into the top of it, then pulled
> and another unit plopped in.

> Any ideas what this type of IDE hard drive reader is called?

   "Hard drive dock"  I think they make singles and duals.  See:
   www.compusa.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=4655684&CatId=2785

You can read and write to the drives just like an external hard drive.
My buddy bought his at CompUSA (Tiger Direct) for ~ $40, he loves his.
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