[Stoner]

I started using this piece of hardware recently.
It is sold under the Genica brand.
It fits in an empty bay in the front of the computer.
It has a removable tray, so the hard drive in it can be removed or quickly replaced with another hard drive.
There is an off on switch, so the hard drive can be turned off.

For me, this works well for security.
Anything I don't want exposed to the internet, documents and records, family pictures, etc. can be in this drive and made inaccesable while online.
Since this drive is seldom in use, leaving it turned off most of the time should save a few pennies in electricity and extend the life of the drive.

Note, you can't boot off this device.
The manufacturer claims the hard drive can be 'hot swapped' under 98se only--but never has worked for me. But not an issue anyway.
The instructions were sparse.
I could only get it to work with the tray's hard drive set to master and the tray pluged into the secondary IDE bus.
If you use an old drive or even a new drive in the tray, make sure that the partitions on it are all logical. Active primary partitions in the tray drive will change the order of drive letters in the boot drive.
I used Partition Magic to change the tray drive to all logical partitions.



Cost online is about $7 to $10. I bought one locally for about $12.


Jack

[hewee]

I have Removable Hard Drive Tray I put on my PC also.
But it is my main drive I boot from.
Got the Kingwin KF-101-IT from Fry's.
http://www.kingwin.com/pdut_detail.a...ateID=35&ID=95

Also got two more trays that I have other hard drives on that I can change out.

I know there are a lot of types of Mobile Racks so you have to get one for the type of drive and use.