> -----Original Message----- > From paul stenquist > Subject: OT: Hard drive enclosures? > > > My oldest external drive failed. It's close to 10 years old and is only > about 130 meg. It was fully backed up, so it's not a problem. It's a 3.5 > SATA drive in an enclosure. I'm wondering if I can use that enclosure for > any SATA 3.5 drive. I'm going to replace it with a 1.5 terabyte Seagate > 7200 rpm 3.5 SATA. Are all enclosures created equal? > > BTW, amazon currently has that Seagate drive for $114 with free shipping. > > Paul
Paul, I'd be surprised if it is SATA - I don't think SATA was around 10 years ago. I reckon it's more likely to be ATA, (aka PATA or IDE). If that's the case, the enclosure won't work for a SATA drive - the interface is different. The power connector is different too... See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_ATA for info (not guaranteed to be definitive of course) Chris -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
