I use a similar device for purely external full image backup and it is slow
but functional.  Faster than floppy but slower than IDE Zip drive.

At 12:18 AM 6/5/99 , Mark Rode wrote:
>>Tiger Direct sells gadgets to let you mount IDE drives and CD ROMs in
external
>>cases.  They connect to the parallel port.  I'm sure there's a performance
>hit,
>
>Attached to a parallel port a IDE hard drive would take an enormous
>performance hit !
>The only use for this would be to temporarily transfer files....at a very
>slow rate.
>
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>>but it would look professional.  For the drive, the part number is
>V46-1006 for
>>the drive or V46-1012.  $74.95 each.
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