Christer Edwards wrote: > Afternoon, > > Santa was nice to me this year and I found myself the proud new owner > of a 500G WD (WD5000KS WD Caviar SE16) hard drive. It turns out, > however, that the drive uses SATA and my machines use PATA. I'm not > up-to-date on my hardware definitions so this is what I *believe* is > the situation. Bottom line they use different connections and I can't > connect the thing to any of my machines. > > Could anyone that is a little more up-to-date on hardware give me some > tips? Should I just go pick up a PCI SATA controller and connect it > that way? If so are there any restrictions on where I can use it? > ie; will the controller recognize the drive no matter the size or am I > also restricted on the size the BIOS will recognize? I was actually > planning on putting it in a fairly old machine that I use as a media > server. Or, should I return this drive and get one that is more > immediately compatible with my machine?
I'd go ahead and get a SATA-150 controller. NewEgg.com has some nice, cheap ones. I like this one and have installed about a dozen of them. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16816132006 Even if your drive is a SATA-II (SATA-300) drive, the cost of adding a SATA-II controller is still a leap more than SATA-I (SATA-150). Since the bottleneck isn't really the controller as much as the mechanics of the hard drives themselves, I don't think you're going to see much of a difference in data throughput between SATA-150 and SATA-300 in most cases. Not until drives start spinning faster or something, anyway. -=Fozz -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] is Doran L. Barton, president/CTO, Iodynamics LLC Iodynamics: IT and Web services by Linux/Open Source specialists "Give me your love and I will make you peel at home." -- From a sign in China
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