Do you have a bunch of old hard drives sitting around collecting dust? Do you wish you could use them for backup storage like a usb stick? Well never fear, Joe’s security blanket is here. I call it this because Joe has a great habit of backing up his beautiful black macbook, and he does it by backing it up to an older hard drive via this lovely usb hard drive tool. It’s made by a company called NewerTechnology and it’s inexpensive. This little diddy will cost around $30 and it allows you to turn any laptop hard drive, desktop hard drive, or DVD drive into a usb device. I love this thing and I love the price, and now it’s dubbed “Joe’s security blanket.”
June 17, 2007 at 8:31 pm
I like my blankets. They keep me warm and safe. And when I want to do something crazy on my macbook that’s going to make it not work, I really like know that I can boot off of an external drive, as if it were my real working notebook drive, w/o even thinking, and then fix things, or just restore the broken internal drive to as it was state.
If you hack, and like to do it w/o hesitation, buy yourself one of these jobbies. Don’t pay the external drive enclosure tax. Use any drive you have, ide, sata, big or small.
If you’re onsite with a customer, and they have hard drive probs, hook it up to your laptop and drill into it, or just recover that vital info before the drive dies.
There are so many reasons to love your blankie. I would bore you to go into more here. This thing has never let me down. It’s butt-simple. And if you have a hammer in your toolbox, then there’s absolutely no reason not to have one of these too.
– Joe.