[dba-Tech] Hardware harvesting

[Gary Kjos]

Search for a Hard Drive Docking Station.  I have a couple.  Mine take
either a 2.5 laptop sized hard drive or a 3.5 desktop size drive and
connect via either USB or ESATA.  I use them to do backups and to
switch to SSD drives or to larger rotating drives.  They work great.

This is just an example

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/startech-com-usb-3-0-hard-drive-docking-station-black/5708134.p?skuId=5708134

there are models with two and even four drive spots so you can copy
from one drive to another.

GK


On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 8:10 AM, Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com> wrote:
> About a month ago, my beloved Dell laptop died. I'm not positive, but a
> freak electrical storm and neighbourhood-wide power outage may have been
> the cause. At any rate, the motherboard got fried, and maybe also the CPU.
>
> There is a 1TB hard disk still inside it. Is there any way I can remove it
> and attach it to my new ProBook, at least long enough to grab what data is
> there? I have a backup but it may be a few days or even a month older than
> what's on the disk.
>
> Is there a permanent way to attach that drive to the new machine? (Such as
> get a shell case and maybe a USB connection or whatever... just guessing.)
>
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> Arthur
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