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Episode: 2663
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Title: HPR2663: Short review on a 2.5 inch SSD/HDD caddy
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr2663/hpr2663.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-19 07:09:52
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This episode of HPR is brought to you by archive.org.
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Hello hyperbublic radio listeners, this is Tony Hughes in Blackpool in the UK and as usual
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I've been working with a couple of weeks ago and as my recent interview series has come to an end by the time you listen to this
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here's a short review of a USB 3 2.5 inch HDD stroke SSD caddy I got from ebay a few weeks ago
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as many of you who've listened to my previous rumblings now I frequent a local computer auction and recently they had some cheap 128 gig SSDs for sale
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and I managed to pick several up at the good price after using a few of these to upgrade some desktop PCs to SSD
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I had a couple of these spare and as I have USB 3 on the main laptop that I use thought it would be a good to be able to use one or two of these as portable storage
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not even for boot drives to test out the old Linux distro or two
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so I had a search around on ebay and found one that looked okay and at the right price and I purchased it for £5.50
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and these are linking the show notes to the particular caddy I got
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so after it arrived I plugged it into one of the drives and tested it out
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the first thing to notice is that the SSD is being 7mm in depth flop around a bit in the case
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but this is easily resolved with a bit of card or blue tap under the drive just to help it snuggle in the case
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it does also mean that the case will support the larger 9mm depth to 1.5 inch spinners if needed
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I've not tested a larger older spinner but I suspect they won't fit as 9mm ones are very snug in the case
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anyway the drive was detected without any problems on the PC and laptop and works flawlessly
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and it's really quick to swap out the drives in the caddy
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so it means that I can carry large data files and my music and video library went on the move
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with the advantage that it's less likely to get damaged if accidentally dropped or knocked off the surface
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which is quite likely with portable spinning HDDs
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and I've dropped my current couple of portable spinners a couple of times and been lucky to get away with it
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so I'm very happy with this purchase
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it's already become a part of my regular kit to travelling toolkit and in the laptop bag
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and will continue to be and I'll probably purchase at least one more so that I can have a couple knocking about in the bag
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and one like I say possibly with me music and some videos for when travelling
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so that's it for this episode I'll record something else in the near future
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saying goodbye to all the listeners in HPR land and speak to you soon
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