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Originally Posted by ianathuth
I have my hard drives mounted in removeable caddies which means that I can take them away from the system for safe keeping and take no room up when inserted in the system. I decided on this after my grandson mucked up my PC whilst playing on it. I take my normal drive out and replace it with one setup just for him. I have an old small drive that I use just for internet banking in another caddy. This method means that you can swap boot drives very easily for different operating systems or different types of use. They can be picked up for about £4 or £5 from places such as ebuyer (#72253) and you can use whatever HD you want in them.
You can use the various USB and Firewire external drives mentioned in other posts or external caddies to take your choice of HD.
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The problems with these is ofcourse going to be compatibility, they revise the designs every few months and as such a drive you bought last year wont fit in a friends caddy if he bought it a week ago.
Its ok if you buy a bulk lot and just switch the drive between your own PC's with Caddies pre-installed but what if you want to take it to assist with a repair at someones house you have never been to before?
The Removable caddy market needs a little standardisation before it becomes practical IMO.