Hardware switch for bootable drives

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I think it may be useful for some folks around here

 

Nice find Lucas,

It looks like it could also be useful to keep a data drive offline while your online . Once my piggy bank starts to rattle again, I may have to get one.

 

Interesting and useful no less.

Thanks lucas for the really nice screenshot. Like innerpeace, when my jingles start to ring again this is something i have to look into. It gets just a bit tedious pulling & changing cable plugs all the time like i do now.

ErikAlbert ask me awhile back how i done so much jockeying with INTERNAL hard drives and gave him the only answer i could, i keep my PC unit's side panel off.

 

LOL. Exactly what I do and the case sits up at desktop level to the right so it's easy to plug/unplug ide/sata drives of which I have a dozen or so with Windows/Linux systems.

Of course I have to mark each drives operating system with a black texta or else I wouldn't know where I was!

 

Very nice find. Makes typical dual-booting or other multiple hdd set-ups, dare I say, obsolete. Have a minor rebuild\upgrade coming for my tower. I can see one of these being thrown into the mix.

 

ROFL

Yeah, i even resort to winging it myself when it comes to jumper pin settings since i like to keep at least some of the internal HD's in their respective slots, i just perform the usual process of elimination till the dual-boot drives boots up normally.

It's weird, all these different HD manufacturers like Seagate, WesternDigital, even old Quantumm and one oddball Hitachi drive "ALL" have their respective Slave/Master positions differently.

I'm getting familiar with them better now, since i can only see their pin plug ends but i'll eventually jot down a short sketch of those placements i suppose and leave that drawing in the case for when i take an extended absence from these machines for awhile.

Because every time i been away for very long i lose track again

 

just get some sata drives they dont have master and slave plugs so less user error

 

Hello,
I have a dumb question:
How does this thingie integrate into the case?
Mrk

 

Fits into a 3.5" bay. There are 3 power connectors. One from the PSU. Two that go the hard drives you want to connect\control. Only disadvantage I see is it is not hot swappable. The PC has to be off before the selector knob will function.