They have enclosures that do the same thing, their a bit more expensive but give you a bit more portability
@KeonsLab
4 ай бұрын
Yeah if portability is a major concern then those would definitely be the way to go since you get additional impact resistance. I like to keep my HDD in its box and wrapped in bubble wrap so when I need to use it I just pop the USB connector out the corner of the box and close it again when I’m done.
@badasahog13
4 ай бұрын
My friend has done something like this with an Xbox hard drive he had to jerryrig a converter and it worked surprisingly well
@KeonsLab
4 ай бұрын
Cool!
@Dan_The_Paper
4 ай бұрын
Yep. Although if you want to make one from a pc, you may need a sata to usb connector that support an external powr input. 1tb hdd is cheap nowdays
@KeonsLab
4 ай бұрын
If it’s a 3.5” drive then yeah you’ll need additional power, but for the 2.5” ‘laptop’ drives like in the video the USB connection provides enough power
@Dan_The_Paper
4 ай бұрын
@@KeonsLab that's true. I would prefer ssd tho they're cheap now and doesn't consume much. Funny how some Kingston drives could be more expensive than an SSD with the same capacity
@henryisnotafraid
4 ай бұрын
I use them all the time! You definitely don't want to plug that combo into a USB splinter or hub that's not powered. Although in SSD with this adapter usually works all the time
@dudebastian
4 ай бұрын
I used my old hard drive and usb-sata cable when I was in university. This method saved me a lot of time and money - others was jugling pendrives or trying to log in to cloud meanwhile I was just plugging my 1TB drive with all my projects and after classes I could even play games from this drive. Now that I have external smaller and quicker SSD I use him to archive my old files and still works great.
@KeonsLab
4 ай бұрын
I know it’s so convenient right!? I think it might even be more reliable than a flash drive
@Floofie_boi
4 ай бұрын
You can also do the same thing with full sized desktop drives and IDE drives you just have to get an adapter that is powered by a wall adapter
@KeonsLab
4 ай бұрын
Yup!
@ashutoshpandey958
14 күн бұрын
i hv 3.0 hdd of my pc ... pls suggest how i can connect with my laptop !
@blarghblargh
4 ай бұрын
Buying an adapter counts as DIY these days? Check out my easy trick to build your own house, in hours. It's called signing a lease
@KeonsLab
4 ай бұрын
It’s more like “half DIY”, full DIY would be designing a 3D printed enclosure and including shock-reducing foam on the inner walls, detachable USB and everything!
@DallasTechnical
4 ай бұрын
@@KeonsLab no it would be manually wiring this yourself, lmao
@KeonsLab
2 ай бұрын
That would actually be a cool idea, but in my opinion that’s beyond ordinary DIY, that would literally be manufacturing the entire thing from scratch… which could actually be a cool video!
@faizannekaha
Ай бұрын
can i use for 1.0 A?
@KeonsLab
Ай бұрын
@@faizannekaha You mean like with a hard drive that consumes 1 Amp? Unfortunately I don’t think that’d work unless you have an external 12V power source. The reason it only works with 2.5” SSDs and HDDs is because they’re made to go into portable devices, so they require much less power to run. For example my 1TB 2.5” HDD only needs 5V and 0.55A to operate, which is well below the 0.9A max. current that a USB 3.0 port can provide. I hope this makes sense 😊
@Dan_The_Paper
Ай бұрын
If the port can output 1 amp but usually it only gives 0.5 amps
@faizannekaha
Ай бұрын
@@KeonsLab okay 👍
@faizannekaha
Ай бұрын
@@Dan_The_Paper ok
@ghost_o_o_
2 ай бұрын
Will it work on mobile
@KeonsLab
2 ай бұрын
I haven’t tried so I’m not sure! I think it could maybe work on an android phone
@DallasTechnical
4 ай бұрын
No. Don’t. Sata to usb is for emergency only, and there’s many reasons external storage devices come with proper housing…. C’mon bro
@KeonsLab
4 ай бұрын
If someone actually needs to carry it around with them then I totally agree, but if you just need a USB Hard Drive without wanting to spend 2-3x the price, this is the most cost effective method in my opinion.
@DallasTechnical
4 ай бұрын
@@KeonsLab you don’t find yourself “needing a USB Hard Drive” because that’s as rediculous as it sounds, it has no sense. Don’t waste money on HDD get an SSD instead if you must buy something internal but *key word internal*, if using external then you need a flash drive or external SSD or enclosure for internal HDD/SSD. Being stuck with a hard drive, that’s one thing. Using the only $12 you have for a SATA-USB cable is another thing. But stopping there is what we call riding the short bus. Your next $12 is for a USB stick and the next $40 is for 1 TB external SSD. Make progress toward the correct scenario. If you don’t, you WILL shock your exposed internal drive and you will lose everything, assuming a roach doesn’t crawl inside and make babies first rendering data corrupted, and assuming the humidity doesn’t get above the dew point (close the door when you shower and open a window baby) You seem to place importance in the files you wish to save in as separate space other than your computers C drive. Is it important enough to protect? The statement “better than nothing” should be emphasized further “having an exposed internal drive using an Amazon adapter for work files was brilliant for the 13 days it lasted until losing those files to my mousepad friction causing static, leading to losing my job because I didn’t want to budget for something recommended by literally everyone, but hey it was better than having 0 days”
@KeonsLab
4 ай бұрын
Woah there, now that’s a lot of assumptions! I made some corrections: 1 - I make redundant archives of all my important data on 2 cold HDDs, google drive, and just for peace of mind, onto MDISC Archival Blu-Ray Discs which use a special burner to physically etch the data. Also, can’t an HDD still be technically recovered in a clean room while if an SSD dies it’s gone? 2 - the SATA to USB cable was $5, and I’ve been using this method for almost 2 years 3 - an external 1TB SSD is way more than $40, that’s the price of a 1TB internal one 4 - I always electrically ground myself and never touch the PCB side 5 - I know HDDs are slower, but if I’m cold archiving important stuff for potentially over a decade, I’m trusting the HDD more. That’s why I also burn copies onto Blu-ray Discs, that way I’m protected against physical shock or a magnet ruining the HDD, and the blu-rays can survive a flood. 6 - While static is a very real concern for electronics, they’re a lot more resilient than you’d think.
@DallasTechnical
4 ай бұрын
@@KeonsLab assumptions? Ok let’s go on your words verbatim 1 - that’s a lot of backup methods that are extremely slow, you should just create a system image if an external SSD isn’t enough peace of mind, as none of the cloud backup services do everything you need to causing you to use a combination of services as expressed in your statement 1-B your HDD recovery process won’t be done at home similar to an SSD recovery process so that’s irrelevant, and both types can fail, and I’ve never had either type fail on me as I properly use drives. Some cheap brands of both types will fail easily so just shop wisely. This topic is nulled. 2 - a dead clock is right twice a day, just because something is working at the moment doesn’t mean you should keep doing it, like try putting regular unleaded gas in a hybrid and see what happens, sure you’ll get home but you will have a rude awakening when you least expect it. So I mean “cool” but at the same time, shame on you and congrats for it surviving this long. 3 - I don’t know where you shop but you can go to Amazon or Walmart and get a Samsung 1TB shield which is super rugged and fast. I just got one last month on sale but if yours isn’t on sale then go with PNY or Western Digital those are fine $40 options without a sale. 4 - you may ground yourself but what about humidity and pests and spills and drops (mechanical drive no likey) and sure grounding might help a lot but what if you build a DC charge and it wants to equalize with the DC from your drive, separate from earth ground which is many ohms of resistance further than your finger. You can still shock it. Phones, lights, anything running a battery can discharge to you and therefore discharge to what you touch if it happens at the same time. I mean if you only dodge half of 1 of the major problematic elements of an exposed internal drive then why go through all these motions ultimately if it really doesn’t matter? 5 - 4-5x slower to be exact, pending your USB port technology. You could be saving half of the wattage used to write data when using a HDD but in reality you spend double the electricity and at least 4 times the time. Not sure if your computer is high wattage but it could knock your electricity bill down by a significant amount as your computer is running when trying to write to external drives right. So if you’ve been doing that for 10 years, try to avoid the temptation of calculating the overspending on electricity and time. Just for mental health reasons. And instead of using physical discs just image the computer and create a .iso file that is a digital disk that can survive a nuclear war lol put that sucker in the cloud. Replace it weekly or monthly but do away with all the wasted plastic discs and hours fussing with that incredibly slow write speed. Making an image is almost as fast as the write speed of your drive. 6 - I’m an electrical engineer so I can explain exactly how sensitive electronics are to shock, but to argue this point with someone defending “shocking their internal HDD from an exposed external configuration” is laughable and I’ll leave you where you were on that one. You are defending this mayhem like your life depended on it like you are trying to convince yourself it’s acceptable when it’s clearly not. This is what we call “beating a dead horse” and trainees who come in on an ego trip mostly get fired before they get electrocuted. Mostly.
@DallasTechnical
4 ай бұрын
@@KeonsLab I bet you have a bunch of magnetic-tip type-c cables don’t you lol when your stuff burns up you will remember this thread
@thawzinkhant1759
4 ай бұрын
Cool!
@KeonsLab
4 ай бұрын
😁
@CLOCK-WORK
4 ай бұрын
At this point just use a 1 TB usb ssd chip
@KeonsLab
4 ай бұрын
Yeah I think that would also work!
@gksecure6602
3 ай бұрын
It's a good way to reuse old hdd tho
@ImBatuKumAhhh
4 ай бұрын
65 mbps ain't fast
@KeonsLab
4 ай бұрын
It usually goes a lot faster when I use it on a Mac via a USB-C dongle and I’m not sure why. But when connected to a Mac I can transfer ~10GB in just a few minutes
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