New Toy of the Week

This week's new toy is the EZ-Swap hard drive enclosure. What you get is a portable enclosure for a 2.5" SATA hard drive and a 3.5"/5.25" drive bay for your computer along with necessary cables and carrying case.

You can use the drive by itself connected with a data cable to any computer's USB port. There is a power cable (another USB port is required), but I have found that this is not needed, (with an 80 gb drive at least) as there seems to be enough power from the USB data cable.

If you mount the drive bay in a desktop computer, you now have a hot swappable hard drive. We use it around the office for quick re-imaging of computers.

Very handy, compact and fast.