{"id":357,"date":"2009-06-24T19:27:20","date_gmt":"2009-06-24T10:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joewein.net\/blog\/?p=357"},"modified":"2009-09-25T11:35:57","modified_gmt":"2009-09-25T02:35:57","slug":"newertech-usb-2-0-universal-drive-adapter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/2009\/06\/24\/newertech-usb-2-0-universal-drive-adapter\/","title":{"rendered":"NewerTech USB 2.0 Universal Drive Adapter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you find yourself needing to read and write hard disks from other computers and do not always want to transplant them into a computer or an empty USB drive chassis, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newertech.com\/products\/usb2_adaptv2.php\">NewerTech USB 2.0 Universal Drive Adapter<\/a> is a great solution. It handles just about any format:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> 3.5&#8243; SATA (1.5 or 3.0 GBps, Molex or SATA power connector)<\/li>\n<li> 3.5&#8243; parallel ATA<\/li>\n<li> 2.5&#8243; SATA<\/li>\n<li> 2.5&#8243; parallel ATA<\/li>\n<li> 5.25&#8243; parallel ATA optical drives (CD\/DVD\/Blueray &#8211; but not notebook drives!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Its 100-240V, 50\/60 Hz universal power brick is usable worldwide. All necessary cables are included (ATA ribbon cable, SATA, USB, power cables). <\/p>\n<p>Using a hard disk on any USB-equipped computer is as easy as connecting the drive to the USB adapter and power brick and plugging the USB cable into the computer&#8217;s port (PC or Mac, running Windows, OS X or Linux). It may take about half a minute for the PC&#8217;s operating system to load the necessary drivers, but then you&#8217;ll have a new drive that can use any way you like.<\/p>\n<p>So far the unit has worked just as advertised. I&#8217;m using it to access drives from older machines as well as for system upgrades and new operating system installs. For example, you could use the unit to hook up a DVD drive for installing an OS on a net book or other PC that doesn&#8217;t have an optical drive.<\/p>\n<p>NewerTech has been around for a long time and has a good reputation mostly for Mac-related hardware, but some of it works equally well for Windows and Linux PCs. <\/p>\n<p>Their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newertech.com\/products\/gmax.php\">Guardian MAXimus external RAID-1 solution<\/a> (from $150 without preinstalled disks, $430 for twin enterprise class 1 TB drives) also looks very interesting. It supports a full range of interfaces (eSATA, USB 2.0 and Firewire 400\/800) and handles a pair of drives of up to 2 TB each. RAID-1 means that all writes are automatically replicated to both drives, without the operating system needing any special support for it, so that you&#8217;ll be fully covered should one of the drives fail: You just replace the dead drive and it is automatically rebuilt using the data from the good drive while you keep on working.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you find yourself needing to read and write hard disks from other computers and do not always want to transplant them into a computer or an empty USB drive chassis, the NewerTech USB 2.0 Universal Drive Adapter is a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/2009\/06\/24\/newertech-usb-2-0-universal-drive-adapter\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":401,"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions\/401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}