Showing posts with label sata power switch hdd. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sata power switch hdd. Show all posts

Monday, February 1, 2010

SATA Power Switch

There is a useful project at this site that I duplicated. It's a switch that selects between 2 SATA HDDs (it switches power between two SATA power connectors so that only 1 is active).
It's great for testing alternative operating systems or having a quick-boot surfing system on one hdd and a work related system on the other for example.

The build process is pretty much outlined on the site. Here's how mine looks using a big old 2 deck rotary switch


I had to saw quite a bit off the shaft and spraypaint the knob for it look passable. This is how it looked beforehand: