Mark Allanson
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| posted on 25/11/06 at 11:05 AM |
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SATA and SATAII
I have just bought a hard drive caddy which needs a SATA hard drive to go in it, all I can find are SATAII drives, will this be compatable?
My original intention was to fit my ATA 80gig drive but didn't read the specs properly - DUH
Any help, info gratefully recieved
If you can keep you head, whilst all others around you are losing theirs, you are not fully aware of the situation
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Hellfire
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| posted on 25/11/06 at 11:20 AM |
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Should be backwards compatible...
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Mark Allanson
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| posted on 25/11/06 at 11:24 AM |
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The main thing is the cabling - the connections in the caddy are nothing like the (old) hard drives I have in the computer, can anyone confirm what
the SATA cable ends look like?
If you can keep you head, whilst all others around you are losing theirs, you are not fully aware of the situation
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Alfa145
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| posted on 25/11/06 at 11:42 AM |
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Sata Cable
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Peteff
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| posted on 25/11/06 at 12:02 PM |
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I can confirm
nothing like the (old) hard drives  EIDE or as they are also now called PATA drives have bigger ribbon cables and connectors. The power connectors
are different as well.
[Edited on 25/11/06 by Peteff]
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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Mark Allanson
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| posted on 25/11/06 at 03:15 PM |
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Thanks everyone, got it sussed, 250gig backup here we come
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