USB Hard Drive & CD-Rom Box Cover (External)

By Reality Bites | 14, May 2009 | 10 Comments

Nowadays, external devices & applications are very common for all mobile users. While keeping in view, I want to share information of this USB Combo box (External), having multi-dimensional functions. It can be used in combination with your Hard Drive and then use use this hard drive as USB Drive.

Its price is too low as compared to the original USB hard drive or USB super DVD Drive if you buy from market.

Usage

For backup
To carry huge data while on the go
to use as normal storage device

How to use it?

Buy any External Hard Drive (ATA, SATA) of any storage limit, as per your requirement. For instance, you can buy used 40GB Hard Drive within the range of Rs. 2000/- all over Pakistan.
Buy USB combo box multifunctional . It will cost you Rs. 700 to Rs. 1400, depending on the quality. Combo boxes with low rates are also available in the market like DANY.
Now follow the instructions written on it in order to fix your hard drive in USB Combo Box. It requires only little knowledge as there are only couple of cables to connect before you can use your Mass Storage USB Drive.
Close the Box and connect USB cable with the power cable.
It will be detected on your computer as USB device.
Start Using and Enjoying it.

Usual USB hard Drive cost you almost Rs. 5000 for 160GB. But if you will use the above trick, it will only cost you Rs. 4000/- for 160GB or 200GB converted HARD drive and Rs. 3000 for Super DVD Drive. Choice is all yours!

Where to find and buy?

In all over Pakistan you can find these devices in any local computer market, ranging from Rs.700 –Rs.1500, depending on the quality.

If you want to share your comments or provide any information! Please remember Always to tell the exact location where one can buy it while providing any low-priced quote

It is also known as USB Hard drive or CD-Rom enclosure!

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RajaSb

Kewl Mara!!! i am gonna buy it!!!
Shak

I was looking for this solution some years ago, and came across an even more interesting option:

IDE-to-USB Converter
cost: around Rs. 1000
availability:
Karachi – Uni Plaza
Lahore – Hafeez Center or Hall Road should have it
Islamabad – Blue Area should have it

How it works:
It connects your usual internal hard drives via USB. Internal HDD are much cheaper than external.

APPLICATIONS:

Use it for backup, mass data transfers etc

It is an angel of blessing for accessing crashed hard drives by connecting them to a working computer for data recovery.

Device comes with additional option of SATA connector, with which you can even connect Laptop HDD via USB!

Personal Recommendation:
I am using it since 2005. Works great. Simple, and useful.
Suhaib Malik

The main problem in using it , is that u need to carry the charger of the case all the time. Whereas if you have a portable hard drive u need to plug the usb cable only. Neways it is a cheaper solution if anyone need to have portable hard drive.

Also one category of this hard case is available in which you have a direct Ethernet connectivity. so u can make a cheap NAS :-))
ahsan

Nice device….but it is strange that a separate power cable is required to operate the device. actually, a usb cable is already composed of 4 wires; 2 supports serial data transfer while 2 others supports power requirements!
Khurram

I would prefer Black copper enclosure, its reliable and it does not require power cable seperately
SolidSnake

Great so u need to a power connector for power adapter.
How com u say it can be used as NAS when the device is not having a network port?
Aryaankhan

Kindly give me the information about the external hard drive. Can i use it as operating system. when a system has already connected internal harddrive. give me the answer quick. ok bye
Nadeem Ahmed

there is no match with the factory USB HDD and this typo self made HDD , as the SHOCK is the main factor , one can easily damage the self made USB HDD in a single jerk. :) so buy a factory made usb / external HDD . maxtor is best and cheaper external HDD.
bilal

hi guys m using these two devices(hard disk with box and usb flash hard drive)
the main problem with boxed hard drive is that u have to use external power.
but m more convenient with usb flash hard drive
obviously price difference is material, but if u like to have luxury then price is immaterial :-)
http://www.prices.pk Faheem Mumtaz

thats really nice and price is also nominal but size is big which makes it less portable