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After last week’s near-catastophe when one of my external hard disks failed<\/a>, I found that the disk itself was still serviceable and it was just the enclosure that had inexplicably stopped working. So, I put the disk into an identical enclosure that had been sitting on the shelf since my previous data storage nightmare<\/a>, only to find that enclosure had also failed (whilst not even being used).<\/p>\n

\"IDE\/SATAAlthough I have recovered the data to another drive, my new MacBook has yet to arrive<\/a> and so I wanted to hook the disk back up to the original machine and sync my iPhone with iTunes (I was running out of podcasts to listen to in the car), so \"Maplin\"<\/a>tonight I bought a IDE\/SATA to USB 2.0 cable from Maplin<\/a>, allowing me to connect 2.5″ or 3.5″ IDE (PATA) or SATA disks to the USB port on any computer without a caddy.<\/p>\n

It doesn’t look pretty and I wouldn’t recommend using it for too long as the drive gets very hot but it will certainly suffice as a temporary measure and the ability to support either PATA or SATA drives means that the cable should continue to be useful for a while yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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