I'm currently purchased a Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3320620AS (Perpendicular Recording Technology) 320GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM. However, my laptop doesn't have any port to let me use that harddrive. I thought about an enclosures with a cooling fan. However, I'm quite confused with all the "terms" like eSATA, internal interface, external interface. And I also need a good recommendation of which enclosure I should purchase (as low price as possible). I need to use the drive as an external hdd with my laptop. Thanks!
2006-07-02 09:48:44 · 5 answers · asked by Esente 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
great disk you bought. now i hope your laptop has a USB 2.0 port then all would be ok.
the cheapest but anyway good enclosure where your new disk fit in is this one (it comes with power supply and even the USB cable is included) and costs $30.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817201015
this should solve your problem.
2006-07-02 13:10:11 · answer #1 · answered by moonlightdancer_72 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Uh. SATA's work best when paired with another SATA drive. The purpose of that technology is to either A. One drive mirrors the other, so in the event that one hard drive is lost, the other will have the information. Or B. The SATA controller seperates the data into two streams, sending one chunk to the first drive, the second chunk to the other, etc. This means that a SATA configuration in RAID 0 can read and write twice as fast as a normal hard drive, and since the hard drive is the bottleneck in most machines, that has the potential to make your computer twice as fast. As for using it as an external HDD, there might be an enclosure that will conver the SATA plug to USB, but I haven't seen one. It will work just like a normal hard drive if you can find one.
2006-07-02 09:55:49 · answer #2 · answered by Robert B 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I suggest that you take it back and get an external drive with a USB 2 connection.
SATA is being used in more computers, but requires an SATA cable connection to the motherboard. It is a type of "serial" connection where data bits move single file between the drive and memory. SATA is faster than the older ATA parallel connections.
"Internal" means inside the case, plugged into the motherboard. "External" means outside the case, connected by a plug, usually USB these days.
External drives come with their own enclosures and cooling.
It's questionable whether your laptop even has an SATA plug, and unlikely that you could get to it from outside even if it did have one.
Sorry
2006-07-02 10:16:58 · answer #3 · answered by fredshelp 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
on your project, disk area isn't the project so i'm going to hit on different reward. - you could backup archives between the two actual drives. If one rigidity dies, you ought to use the archives from the different. word: this would not remedy the subject in the experience that your place catches on hearth, yet does take care of against hardware failure - overall performance ought to strengthen via placing apart to different disk over different controllers. in all threat no longer a extensive concern for many human beings, yet you need to positioned your web site document on a different disk than your OS and spot a overall performance advance. If doing video enhancing, you could positioned scratch archives on a smaller swifter disk (many times greater costly) and keep your outcomes to the better (and commonly slower) disk. those are 2 reasons that are evoked. i'm particular human beings can think of of others.
2016-11-01 02:36:38 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sell it to me, I would know what to do with it.
2006-07-07 14:37:50 · answer #5 · answered by ghowriter 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋