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Hard drive enclosures
Hello,
I'm not looking to add a full computer to my car. Don't have the time, money or need.
What I am looking to do, is get a headunit that has a USB input for a mass storage device, and rather than use something like a thumb drive, use a hard drive. I've been trying to find something that will allow me to this. Basically, what I need:
Some sort of enclosure. Something that's easily removable so I can plug it into my computer to load music. I'm thinking something along the lines of something similar to removeable drive bays in servers and such where I don't have to mess around with IDE and power cables, it just slides in and out. In fact, if it was DIN, that would be awesome, because my car is double-din and I could put the HD right under my headunit.
Some sort of way to plug into my car's power. I guess some sort of adapter or inverter would be needed.
As far as the hard drive it uses, I could care less. 2.5, 3.5, IDE, SATA, doesn't matter to me. I don't have any extra hard drives laying around my house that would even hold half my music collection, so I'd have to buy a new drive anyways, so size or interface doesn't matter. A 2.5" probably could be bus powered (assuming these headunits put out enough power on the USB port to actually power a drive) which would be handy, but I'd be surprised if anything remotely close to what I want exists, so I won't be choosy.
So, does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks
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