Swapping Hard Drives

I had read of a contraption that would enable you to swap out hard drives. I am looking for a way to do that. I have a Dell 8200 and would like to see if it would be possible. What is it called and where can I get it?

 

One such device is called a "Removable Hard Drive Bay" they are not "Hot Swappable" but very useful, there are many manufacturers such as Lian Li, make sure you have at least 1 fan, though 3 is better.

 

Are they the cases where you can insert an internal hard drive and it makes it usable as an external hard drive?

Jimbob

 

No these are internal, you can also purchase external USB and Firewire Hard Drive bays, if you are looking at this method then I would suggest a "Laptop" Hard Drive as it is far smaller and more robust.

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Thank you all for the replies. Would what I want to do work? I have 2 hard drives installed. C drive is my system drive and F is for storing digital pictures. I want to be able to install a hard drive and Ghost an image of my system to it. Then be able to remove the drive. I have a DVD Rom drive and a CD-RW drive. I have a Plextor DVD-Cd burner PX 712 that I could use to free up a bay. Would I be able to do this?

 

Usually you will have an additional bay, most Cases have a minimum of 3, thus you can add it into the 3rd bay. I run the same configuration, well mine has 4 bays and the 4th bay I have an additional Removable Bay which has my C Drive in it.

Cheers

 

I did some googleing and found Storcase but they are kind of expensive. Looks like they are nice though.

 

Try here as well: http://www.lian-li.com/product.php?pcid=33&secid=70

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To what cable do you connect the third hard drive?

 

Primary Master = C Drive
Primary Slave = Removable Drive
Secondary Master = DVD Burner
Secondary Slave = Combo CDRW/DVD Drive

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Blackspear I already have two hard drives installed. My C drive is my system drive F drive is my storage drive. I have a CD-RW drive and a DVD Rom.drive. I have a DVD -CD burner to put in. Could I put the removable hard drive in where the DVD Rom. drive comes out?