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Step 3Buy a housing and put the drive in it.
First off, I'm not sure why these pics came out sideways. I know I was holding the camera upright, anywho, you'll get the meaning. You now need to buy a housing. I recommend the brand Acomdata because that's what I overheard the sales associate recommend. First I bought a Sabrent, but it broke halfway through me getting the drive installed. Just to cover my bases, the housing will house your old drive, protecting it, powering it, and giving it a usb hookup. The sabrent was the cheapest and I paid for it with driving back and forth to fry's. The Acomdata was quick, easy, and looks nice to boot.
Putting the drive in the housing is pretty straightforward, things only go together one way, so take your time and you'll get it right the first time. Know what kind of drive you have, in the apple time capsule case it's a 3.5 inch SATA drive, so I needed to find a 3.5 inch SATA compatible housing. It was a piece of cake, know that just because there are wires inside the housing, you don't necessarily have to use them all, reading the instructions can resolve this issue.
In the final picture you can see my drive setting in the case-almost finished.
Putting the drive in the housing is pretty straightforward, things only go together one way, so take your time and you'll get it right the first time. Know what kind of drive you have, in the apple time capsule case it's a 3.5 inch SATA drive, so I needed to find a 3.5 inch SATA compatible housing. It was a piece of cake, know that just because there are wires inside the housing, you don't necessarily have to use them all, reading the instructions can resolve this issue.
In the final picture you can see my drive setting in the case-almost finished.
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This is a simple method of saving data. I have done it hundreds of times for clients (Putting hard drives into external cases that is) and I have never had a non cooled one fail on me yet. Seeing as i live in Tropical North Queensland Australia you would expect that they would fail beacuse of over heating but they don't.
Good instructable.