Technical Note

[captain_slinky]

Did 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?

Comments

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I guess i *could8 liquidate some of my off-shore holdings and cash-in some of those long-term investment bonds to get a new motherboard and video card... :P

Going with the enclosure :)

[rogh-sensei.livejournal.com]

You're daft or just uninformed if you think it costs THAT much to overhaul a machine. Try Newegg.com or Tigerdirect.com for some great great deals on some serious hardware.

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

Naaaaah... the point is that we have *no* money. Shelling out $90 for a hard drive was strapping enough!

[rogh-sensei.livejournal.com]

Aaaah. That I can understand. :)