Dan, I forgot to mention… Look on the drive casing LABEL of your Hitachi drive, to find the information you're asking about -- it's usually listed on there, somewhere; that is, designating the drive's interface of IDE, ATA, etc, of your disk. Russ
On a date prior to this, Dan wrote: > > Dan, > > I'm pretty sure I remember seeing IDE-specific items on the site, > but I wasn't searching for that type of hook up. > > "SATA" is Serial ATA (a very fast data transfer rate) > "eSATA" is external Serial ATA (an even faster data transfer rate) > > "HDD" used to be a usual "Hard Disk Drive", but a new references > to something current may be completely different; I don't know, > although my rather shakey guess might be "High Density Disk". > (??) > > Russ Preston > > > On Jan 8, 2008, at 12:31 PM, Dan Crutcher wrote: > >> Russ, >> >> Thanks for the link. It looks like CoolDrives will have something to >> fit my needs. I'm looking for a 2.5" enclosure to hold the 160 GB >> factory-installed drive that I recently removed from my MacBook >> Pro. I >> would like to have USB 2, Firewire 400 and Firewire 800 connectors on >> it. >> >> It look like CoolDrives has something like that but I notice that >> some >> of the specs refer to SATA and eSATA drives, others refer to SATA HDD >> or just HDD. Can anyone tell me exactly what type my Hitachi 160 GB >> drive is. Specifically, I'm looking at the following and would >> like to >> know if it will work with my drive: >> >> http://www.cooldrives.com/2sahddencosa.html >> >> Thanks. >> >> Dan >> >> >> >>> Bill, >>> Have a look around on this site: <http://www.cooldrives.com/>. >>> Russ Preston >>> >>> >>> On Jan 8, 2008, at 9:09 AM, Bill Rising wrote: >>> >>>> Hey folks, >>>> >>>> It seems that my beloved 6 1/2 year-old dual-processor 800MHz >>>> quicksilver has bitten the dust. The symptoms are: >>>> >>>> . When attempting to turn it on, the light on the power switch >>>> turns on, then off, immediately. >>>> . When two lucky boot attempts worked, the machine would run for >>>> about 5 minutes and then lock up hard. >>>> >>>> I replaced the motherboard battery, did all the PMU stuff, then did >>>> the PRAM stuff during a lucky reboot, all to no avail. >>>> >>>> In any case, the machine has been replaced by a nice little mini. >>>> >>>> Question for the group: >>>> >>>> Does anyone have a recommended hard-drive enclosure for plain old >>>> IDE disks? The quicksilver has once-magnificent 80GB, 160GB, and ?? >>>> GB (120, maybe?) IDE drives in it, and I'd like to get the data off >>>> the drives and turn at least one of the drives into a portable >>>> external drive. Perhaps this last idea is dumb, as cheap as drives >>>> are now, but it wouldn't be bad to have something with twice the >>>> capacity of an iPod, which is well over twice as big with 0.01% of >>>> the functionality. >>>> >>>> Tips? _______________________________________________ The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will be January 22 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. Posting address: [email protected] Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
