The Stardom U6 range of external hard drive cases have a removable caddy. The caddy can accept either SATA or IDE (PATA) hard disks.
The caddies are very inexpensive, so instead of buying an enclosure to house each hard drive (think of all the space, all the power supplies and all the cables!), you purchase one U6 unit, and multiple caddies. Different projects and data can be stored on different hard drives. And the beauty of this system is that it doesn’t matter if you have SATA and IDE hard drives – simply get a SATA or IDE caddy to match the hard drive – the U6 unit accepts both!
Installing the hard disk is simple. Insert the hard drive into the caddy, and screw it down. Insert the caddy into the U6 unit. Complete installation will take about 3 minutes.
The U6 range has the following variations.
USB2.0 connection
USB2.0 and FireWire (1394a)
USB2.0 and FireWire B (1394B)
The models can be ordered with a SATA or IDE caddy.
This model has a USB2.0 connection, with a PATA (IDE) Caddy