2.5" drive adapter availability?

Bluefront · Post by **Bluefront** » Mon May 30, 2005 3:44 am

I'm looking for laptop drive adapters. What's available these days? And from where?

This one from an SPCR article looks pretty good...

xilencer · Post by **xilencer** » Mon May 30, 2005 5:19 am

You might wanna check NoiseMagic NoVibes 2.5 - cable adapter is included!

Edit: 19.95 € at www.pcsilent.de
http://www.pcsilent.de/enpd_novibes_min ... _reduction

Post by **Ralf Hutter** » Mon May 30, 2005 6:45 am

Microcenter.com carries that exact adapter, and they also carry a neat 3.5" to 2.5" tray thingy plus that adapter for $9.99, hardly more than most places charge for the adapter itself.

Here's the adapter itself, for 4¢ less that the adapter+bracket!

mazurek · Post by **mazurek** » Mon May 30, 2005 6:48 am

I got some from http://www.geeks.com/

They cost $3.75 a piece
The shipping was sort of expensive though, it cost $13 for UPS 3 day service.

I've heard this with other people too, when you get them, you have align the adaptor pin1 to pin1, and then break off one of the pins so it can connect to the keyed socket.

Post by **Ralf Hutter** » Mon May 30, 2005 7:11 am

mazurek wrote:I got some from http://www.geeks.com/

They cost $3.75 a piece
The shipping was sort of expensive though, it cost $13 for UPS 3 day service.

I've heard this with other people too, when you get them, you have align the adaptor pin1 to pin1, and then break off one of the pins so it can connect to the keyed socket.

FWIW, that's not the same adapter that he showed in his pic. The Geeks adapter looks like one of those cheap ones that flex real easy. The adapter in his pic is built much more substantially and is easier to remove/install w/o flexing the pins on the HDD.

Bluefront · Post by **Bluefront** » Mon May 30, 2005 11:23 am

Hmmm....NewEgg has this one in a USB/IDE adapter kit, for $21. They happed to be OOS right now. I'd like to find a good one for closer to $10. The models that use a small circuit board look really flimsy. Here's the NewEgg model...

hmsrolst · Post by **hmsrolst** » Mon May 30, 2005 11:49 am

Provantage carries them for $3.55. Look about 1/2 way down the page:

http://www.provantage.com/buy-110CBTR-c ... opping.htm

I chose regular shipping for about $7.50 and it arrived the next day.

Edward Ng · Post by **Edward Ng** » Mon May 30, 2005 12:05 pm

hmsrolst wrote:Provantage carries them for $3.55. Look about 1/2 way down the page:

http://www.provantage.com/buy-110CBTR-c ... opping.htm

I chose regular shipping for about $7.50 and it arrived the next day.

Thanks, now I can finally replace my flimsy PCB-based adapters for a decent price!

-Ed

Edward Ng · Post by **Edward Ng** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 5:31 pm

They came in already; they're way nicer than the PCB ones I had before, and they come with clear instructions on which direction to attach them to the drive; also, the necessary pin has already been knocked out for compatibility with IDE cables with the blocked pin. I can't be happier!

-Ed

Jordan · Post by **Jordan** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 7:11 pm

Edward Ng wrote:they come with clear instructions on which direction to attach them to the drive

Thanks, just the info I was looking for

mb2 · Post by **mb2** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 7:18 pm

perhaps this is stupid but would it be possible to connect a 2.5" HDD to USB only?

am i right in thinking that 2.5" drives only use 5v?

u can get USB>ide adaptors and i have seen homebrew USB>5v molex adaptors... does the USB provide enough max power to power a 2.5" drive though?

atomidude · Post by **atomidude** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 9:13 pm

mb2 wrote:perhaps this is stupid but would it be possible to connect a 2.5" HDD to USB only?

am i right in thinking that 2.5" drives only use 5v?

u can get USB>ide adaptors and i have seen homebrew USB>5v molex adaptors... does the USB provide enough max power to power a 2.5" drive though?

plenty usb cases for 2.5" hdds on the market! i use a Vantec NexStar with a 80GB Samsung HDD. never gets too warm, pretty quiet. all you have to do is to install the hdd in this box inside the pc case. the usb bus from mobos provide sufficient juice for the 2.5" hdd to run