Does this exist?

I've been looking all over the internet for something which probably doesn't even exist for my laptop.

I have two hard disk drives for it. One has Windows 7 that I am using as a client connected to a test Windows Server 2008 machine. The other hard drive has Windows XP Pro and it is more or less my daily driver and tester. I've reformatted both of these drives a number of times to try different things, but ideally I would like an easy way to boot from either of these two drives.

Dual boot you say. Well I thought about it at first, and may still go that way, but I do have two separate 320gb drives at my disposal.

How about a dummy hard drive sleeve, the same size as a hard drive with SATA connector with a SATA connector on a short cable. That way I can plug it into my laptop's hard drive slot and easily switch between different bootable hard drives. Oh yes, and a handle of some sort to pull it out of the hard drive bay. It sounds a little makeshift, but this is for my work office and not for portability as I seldom take it on the road.

Right now I pull the hard drive, swap the caddy that covers the end of the drive, so I can grip the drive to remove it, then put in the other drive. If anybody invents this gizmo, let me know.

Gigabit, more or less

I just recently bought a Trendnet 5 port gigabit switch for the house. My goal was to speed up file transfers from my main office computer to the home theatre PC.

The switch itself had good reviews from a couple different websites. It has metal case and seems to be well built. It supposed to be 'green' by using less power to the unused ports. It comes in a 5 and 8 port version. It's unmanaged which isn't a problem.

So far, after a few tests I'm not getting true gigabit speeds from it. I really didn't expect to since there are many factors to take into account such as hard drive speed, size of files and overhead associated with all network traffic. I'll be trying out a utility called iperf which is supposed to give good information regarding network speeds.