Re: 2.5" hard drive opinions..
On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 11:37:04AM -0800, Provost, Stephane wrote:
> I recently purchased a Seagate 5400 RPM, 100 GB. They have $30 off from
> buy.com, if the rebate is still valid.
>
> All in all, it's a very good drive, but maybe this is too much for your PC.
> I got a USB2.0 case for the drive, so the drive remains external. No noise,
> no heat, just great.
>
> I suppose your notebook can only do ULTRA66. So maybe you can one of these
> on ebay.
>From what I hear, up to the newer ATA-5/UDMA-5 drives are compatable,
though I doubt that I would not be able to get the best performance
they were capable of. SATA, on the other hand, is a physically
different interface.
Regards,
DigbyT
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