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Select or Lock Hard Drives... With a Key

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the now-thats-clever dept.

robvasquez writes "Dr. Tom has done a review of a great $16.95 hard disk swapper. This could be a great tool for those of use who dual boot, without bootloaders, or danger to other drives/partitions. Flip the key and power the system up to the OS of your choice. Sure beats popping IDE cables on and off drives and boards." Some things are so simple its amazing they aren't more common. Totally clever idea.

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  1. Turbo Switch by 10.0.0.1 · · Score: 5

    I did a similar thing years ago with 2 525MB drives. I used the (useless) turbo switch to select master/slave on both drives, allowing me to access data on both drives in either configuration. Problem then was that the BOIS didn't auto-detect geometry information, so both drives had to be identical. Worked great, though.

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  2. Hmm.. by PopeAlien · · Score: 5

    I dunno, I use Removable Hard Drive Trays, which make more sense for me.. I not only want to be able to switch drives, but move the drives between home/office etc.. I picked up several removable trays for $20 each (canadian even!) and am quite happy with them.

    This lock switch seems overpriced at $16.95. Parts would cost you about $6 or less I imagine..

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