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From: Andrew Hamilton on 5 May 2008 02:05 Do 2.5" SATA drives have the same interface as 3.5" drives? If you want to upgrade your notebook's hard drive, and the notebook does not have a second drive bay, how do you do it? Thanks -AH
From: mscotgrove on 5 May 2008 02:45 On May 5, 7:05 am, Andrew Hamilton <Ahamilton90...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > Do 2.5" SATA drives have the same interface as 3.5" drives? > Yes > If you want to upgrade your notebook's hard drive, and the notebook > does not have a second drive bay, how do you do it? > External USB enclosure > Thanks > > -AH
From: Anna on 5 May 2008 08:34 On May 5, 7:05 am, Andrew Hamilton <Ahamilton90...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > Do 2.5" SATA drives have the same interface as 3.5" drives? > If you want to upgrade your notebook's hard drive, and the notebook > does not have a second drive bay, how do you do it? > Thanks > -AH <mscotgrove(a)aol.com> wrote in message news:12804db0-8f85-4ce6-be6d-38195be997d2(a)m3g2000hsc.googlegroups.com... Yes External USB enclosure Andrew: Another consideration would be to purchase an ExpressCard with an eSATA port so that you could connect a SATA external HDD to that device. See, for example, http://www.meritline.com/1x-e-sata2-port-pcmcia-expresscard.htm This assumes, of course, that your notebook is equipped with an ExpressCard slot. If it has the older CardBus (PCMCIA) slot then you would need the latter type of device. They come with both a "normal" SATA port as well as an eSATA port. Do a Google search on "Cardbus with SATA port" for various models. The great advantage of the SATA interface over the USB interface is data transfer speed. Considerably superior to USB. Also, (at least in theory) with the ExpressCard device, the external SATA HDD connected to that device is bootable assuming the drive contains a bootable OS obtained via a disk-cloning program such as the Acronis or Casper programs. We're still experimenting with that aspect. But we have never been able to achieve "bootability" with the CardBus device. Anna
From: Arno Wagner on 5 May 2008 09:02 Previously Anna <myname(a)myisp.net> wrote: > On May 5, 7:05 am, Andrew Hamilton <Ahamilton90...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >> Do 2.5" SATA drives have the same interface as 3.5" drives? >> If you want to upgrade your notebook's hard drive, and the notebook >> does not have a second drive bay, how do you do it? >> Thanks >> -AH > <mscotgrove(a)aol.com> wrote in message > news:12804db0-8f85-4ce6-be6d-38195be997d2(a)m3g2000hsc.googlegroups.com... > Yes > External USB enclosure > Andrew: > Another consideration would be to purchase an ExpressCard with an eSATA port > so that you could connect a SATA external HDD to that device. See, for > example, http://www.meritline.com/1x-e-sata2-port-pcmcia-expresscard.htm > This assumes, of course, that your notebook is equipped with an ExpressCard > slot. If it has the older CardBus (PCMCIA) slot then you would need the > latter type of device. They come with both a "normal" SATA port as well as > an eSATA port. Do a Google search on "Cardbus with SATA port" for various > models. > The great advantage of the SATA interface over the USB interface is data > transfer speed. Considerably superior to USB. Also, (at least in theory) > with the ExpressCard device, the external SATA HDD connected to that device > is bootable assuming the drive contains a bootable OS obtained via a > disk-cloning program such as the Acronis or Casper programs. We're still > experimenting with that aspect. But we have never been able to achieve > "bootability" with the CardBus device. > Anna There is one more advantage to eSATA: You can query the SMART attributes and run SMART selftests. To me that is worth the extra cost of getting combined USB+eSATA enclosures, with USB for conveniennce. Arno
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