[SOLVED] connecting hdd with wiring

[zoran1]

Having in mind a small cost, not wanting to buy enclosures or a docking stations, im wondering if its possible to use wiring+chipset pad with ports, in order to connect hdds to my computer. As if i was to strip a hdd enclosure from the parts that are needed for the connectivity. I wonder if i can find these parts some were on eBay perhaps.

 

[zoran1]

What would you do if you had those EIDE drives just sitting there? 🙁

 

[USAFRet]

What would you do if you had those EIDE drives just sitting there? 🙁

Possibly get a USB docking station, and use them for temp things.
https://www.newegg.com/p/1B0-00J5-00060

I have a similar dock, but only for SATA drives.
Comes in handy for testing suspect drives.

 

[Krotow]

Quickly becoming a rat$ nest of cables, to run a few 15 year old drives, with a cumulative capacity of 2-300GB.

One can put his rat nest into some RAID drive enclosure or even make proper RAID drive if all drives are same size and model. The main issue here is relatively low storage volume for decent software and media requirements and high power consumption. And as separate drives those oldies cause storage fragmentation. I'm not going to deter anyone who wish to give second life to their old drives or use them in some interesting DIY project - exactly opposite. However to spare problems with many small drives in home computer for example and speed up drive reading and writing, better is to have single drive in decent size

 

[zoran1]

Don’t you agree that having TimeMachine backing up those drives, is a very good way to be safe if those drives go faulty?

 

[USAFRet]

Don’t you agree that having TimeMachine backing up those drives, is a very good way to be safe if those drives go faulty?

A backup, no matter how or with what software, is always needed.
Be they 15 year old drives, or ones that are 5 minutes off the store shelf.

What is your backup situation at home?

What is your backup situation at home? And if you don't do that, why not? Every single day, I read multiple threads here of "How do I get my stuff back?" or "That drive had 5 years of photos of my kids!!" Be it a dead drive, dropped phone, virus, accidental deletion, formatting the wrong...

forums.tomshardware.com

 

[USAFRet]

One can put his rat nest into some RAID drive enclosure or even make proper RAID drive if all drives are same size and model. The main issue here is relatively low storage volume for decent software and media requirements and high power consumption. And as separate drives those oldies cause storage fragmentation. I'm not going to deter anyone who wish to give second life to their old drives or use them in some interesting DIY project - exactly opposite. However to spare problems with many small drives in home computer for example and speed up drive reading and writing, better is to have single drive in decent size

Right.
But going off the initial request:
"not wanting to buy enclosures "

As a DIY project, maybe.
For actual use, with tiny 15 year old drives...not so much.

 

[Krotow]

"not wanting to buy enclosures "

If he have case with several 3.5" drive bays and good PSU with 100+W power reserve and don't bother about his PC sounding like several tiny jet engines starting on boot, then he can put all his HDD hodgepodge in PC case, put the cable spaghetti factory together and be cool. Assuming that all those drives are SATA drives. A bit more cumbersome for PATA (IDE) drives, especially for case airflow.

For actual use, with tiny 15 year old drives...not so much.

Sure. At last summer I dumped all remaining 60-250 GB PATA/SATA hard drive stash. No reason to keep all that junk which even doesn't have enough space for pictures and videos taken in two years.