USB enclosure for a laptop IDE drive?

[Alex Hewitt]

Bill McGonigle wrote:
> On 2008-12-30 6:02 PM, ordung at gmail.com wrote:
>   
>> On 12/30/08, Ben Scott<dragonhawk at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>     
>>> On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 4:09 PM, Ted Roche<tedroche at tedroche.com>  wrote:
>>>       
>>>> The folks at GotInk4You (*) sell a "USB 2.0 to SATA/IDE" cable&
>>>> connector pretty cheap ///
>>>>         
>> Not an enclosure but I've heard good things about this gizmo. Anyone
>> have any experience?
>>
>> http://www.newertech.com/products/usb2_adaptv2.php
>>
>> Mark
>>     
>
> I have this one:
>
>   http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812232002
>
> and it works perfectly.  It looks very similar, I assume there's an OEM 
> who makes them in customer plastic.
>
> -Bill
>
>   

I have the same one Bill has but recently I found this "docking station" 
at Newegg and I'm very happy with it.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817153066

It only does SATA 2.5/3.5 drives but it's very nicely done...

-Alex