Pretty nice, might consider getting something like that to make an external drive for back up.
Have you any experience with these hard drives? What I mean is since it does 5200 instead of 7200 is it noticeably slower in retrieving data?
By the way, thanks for keeping us informed about your adventures with the many flavors of Linux. It's interesting reading about how a person with some tech savvy deals with something not quite in their line. Too often most comments I find are written by people who have all the basics down so any difficulties they have are minimal and usually not mentioned.
Right now I'm dealing with a cheap but good scanner that simply refuses to work with W7 64bit and it is maddening.
No idea at all, I'm afraid, all of my equipment is too old for SATA.
I'm sort of thinking about adding a big network server that would use a SATA drive or two; my current network drive is only 350gb, right now it doesn't even have room for a full backup of my main work PC, but it can't take drives past 500gb. But with network drives the network speed is much more of a limit than drive speed.
Dabs are offering a couple of different models of 2Tb drives for similar prices, one with free delivery for 85 quid. There seems to be something in the air at the moment, possibly the forthcoming release of 3Tb drives.
You should be able to get a SATA drive or two into your older machines using a PCI SATA card as I have done. You'll not get the full SATA2 speeds out of it but SATA 1 runs to about 200MBytes/sec theoretically (80MBytes/sec realistically).
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Date: 2010-09-01 08:55 am (UTC)Have you any experience with these hard drives? What I mean is since it does 5200 instead of 7200 is it noticeably slower in retrieving data?
By the way, thanks for keeping us informed about your adventures with the many flavors of Linux. It's interesting reading about how a person with some tech savvy deals with something not quite in their line. Too often most comments I find are written by people who have all the basics down so any difficulties they have are minimal and usually not mentioned.
Right now I'm dealing with a cheap but good scanner that simply refuses to work with W7 64bit and it is maddening.
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Date: 2010-09-01 10:54 am (UTC)I'm sort of thinking about adding a big network server that would use a SATA drive or two; my current network drive is only 350gb, right now it doesn't even have room for a full backup of my main work PC, but it can't take drives past 500gb. But with network drives the network speed is much more of a limit than drive speed.
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Date: 2010-09-03 05:34 pm (UTC)You should be able to get a SATA drive or two into your older machines using a PCI SATA card as I have done. You'll not get the full SATA2 speeds out of it but SATA 1 runs to about 200MBytes/sec theoretically (80MBytes/sec realistically).