At 2:21 PM -0800 12/20/2011, Bill Spencer wrote:
SATA-I II or III drives will work just fine. The drives with the
faster interfaces will match the interfaces lower speed.
Given my pretty light-duty needs, will 5400 instead of 7200 RPM make
a lot of difference?
I think it will. 5400rpm, to me, == frustration. ALL your disk
accesses will take longer. That means more SPOD time...
Likewise a PATA laptop drive in an external enclosure as your
suggested (I already have the encl and have a line on a NIB PATA WD
Scorpio Blue internal laptop drive)?
As long as you're not talking expensive drives and/or USB, the
interface is fairly moot. It's the speed of the drive mechanism
itself that counts.
- Dan.
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