You may ask, “What is a drive caddy and why would you need it?” Good questions, which I asked for you so I could get this article started. A drive caddy definition can be found on wikipedia, but it is simply a way to “mount” an internal drive externally.
Let me explain. If you have an internal hard drive (HDD or SSD) that is either suspect or needs to be mounted as if it was an external drive, I can put it in the external drive bay or caddy and mount it from there. The caddy can turn the drive on or off and has an adapter for older large cable non-SATA drives. It is an excellent tool, especially if the drive in question was the boot drive of another computer. It is also excellent for cloning or duplicating a drive. I bought thios for work some time ago and have used it extensively to recover data from “lost” drives, replicate drives, erase data, add extra drives onto a system, and more. The biggest problem I am currently having with this – it doesn’t help with problems with m.2 drives.
This is a small problem since all the new computers have these as boot drives. Nevertheless, this caddy has become an indispensible tool in my arsenal.
