On 5/22/07, Lan Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tue, May 22, 2007 3:12 pm, Carl Lowenstein wrote:
> On 5/22/07, Lan Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>> On Tue, May 22, 2007 2:17 pm, Carl Lowenstein wrote:
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>> > 2) Invest in 500GB disk drives because that is the current
>> > price/capacity sweet spot.
>> >
>> > carl
>> >
>>
>> And what (and where) is the sweet price?
>>
>
> Read the Fry's ads in the daily paper. Or < http://www.frys.com >. I
> tossed out yesterday's paper so I can't read the ad there. One of
> these days I will figure out Fry's newspaper advertising schedule.
>
> Today's online special is 500GB Maxtor SATA for $99.99 including shipping.
> Last week I think it was the equivalent Seagate for not much more.
>
> Sometimes PATA (nee ATA) drives go for the same price. Just have to
> follow the market.
>
> carl
Pardon, but this is Lan. Is SATA better than PATA? Other way around?
(What I wouldn't give for a 500 G ATA-boy :-/ )
SATA (Serial ATA) uses a different data transmission scheme (serial on
2 wires rather than parallel on 40 wires). Probably faster in data
transmission, although the over-all data rate is limited by the disk
drive or the motherboard, whichever is faster. It requires a
different controller on the motherboard, with the concomitant
difference in cables and connectors. One can buy SATA controllers
that plug into the motherboard PCI backplane.
So if you are upgrading an old system you probably don't want SATA.
Unless you are upgrading it by getting a new disk drive to put into an
external box. Then you can get a box that connects to the rest of the
world by USB or Firewire or Ethernet, and has the right kind of
internals to fit your disk drive.
carl
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