Technical Note
Apr. 14th, 2008 10:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
captain_slinkyDid you know that an EIDE Hard Drive and a SATA hard Drive are completely different, and you actually need a SATA Motherboard to use a SATA hard Drive?
Well now I know!
Seriously, when I bought the silly thing I thought it was just some silly proprietary bit of title work, no more important than the words "Seagate" or "Western Digital". I had no idea that it meant a completely different type of hook-up.
So now I have a box full of half-a-terabyte mocking me, making me wish I had known what the heck a SATA was. And now I have to decide... take it back and swap for a smaller, more expensive EIDE drive? Or buy a $30 SATA enclosure? 'Twould be nice to have 500GB of storage in a portable USB device... but I've had problems in the past burning data off of a USB storage device on to DVD.
Any suggestions?
Well now I know!
Seriously, when I bought the silly thing I thought it was just some silly proprietary bit of title work, no more important than the words "Seagate" or "Western Digital". I had no idea that it meant a completely different type of hook-up.
So now I have a box full of half-a-terabyte mocking me, making me wish I had known what the heck a SATA was. And now I have to decide... take it back and swap for a smaller, more expensive EIDE drive? Or buy a $30 SATA enclosure? 'Twould be nice to have 500GB of storage in a portable USB device... but I've had problems in the past burning data off of a USB storage device on to DVD.
Any suggestions?
