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I didn't even know these things existed. For the longest time I was thinking about designing and building my own but for this price there's no way I could come up with something looking this good.
This is the Zalman VE-200 (or VE-200SE for silver)
Zalman VE 200SE Storage Enclosure External Black Silver 1 X Total BAY 1 | eBay
Seems like a normal, portable 2.5" drive bay. Except, it also works like an DVD-Rom Drive emulator.
You basically load a 2.5" drive up with ISOs, connect it to any machine, select any iso from the folder using the jog-wheel and the machine will detect it as an attached DVD-Rom and boot off of it like regular optical media drive. It basically saves you burning ISOs to DVD or creating boot USB sticks and dealing with crapload of media.
There's a newer version of this, the Zalman VE-300 (and VE-400 with encryption and code keypad), both are USB3 which use a USB3 hub cable which might not be readily available if you misplace it.
The advantage of the VE-200: Standard USB2 cable, eSata, cheaper. Most servers use USB2 anyways so no advantage to going with USB3
I didn't even know these things existed. For the longest time I was thinking about designing and building my own but for this price there's no way I could come up with something looking this good.
This is the Zalman VE-200 (or VE-200SE for silver)
Zalman VE 200SE Storage Enclosure External Black Silver 1 X Total BAY 1 | eBay
Seems like a normal, portable 2.5" drive bay. Except, it also works like an DVD-Rom Drive emulator.
You basically load a 2.5" drive up with ISOs, connect it to any machine, select any iso from the folder using the jog-wheel and the machine will detect it as an attached DVD-Rom and boot off of it like regular optical media drive. It basically saves you burning ISOs to DVD or creating boot USB sticks and dealing with crapload of media.
There's a newer version of this, the Zalman VE-300 (and VE-400 with encryption and code keypad), both are USB3 which use a USB3 hub cable which might not be readily available if you misplace it.
The advantage of the VE-200: Standard USB2 cable, eSata, cheaper. Most servers use USB2 anyways so no advantage to going with USB3
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