Dammit
I totally want to geek out with someone about my new (and fairly inexpensive) PCMCIA SATA card, which I’ll test when I get home.
Unfortunately, other than the lovely and technically-minded takarosa, I think there are approximately … zero people on my
IM list who’d be as interested.
1.5 Gb/s, baybee! (1 ,500 Megabits/second, compared to the 480/s of USB 2.0 and the 400/s of firewire.)
*does a little geek-dance*
EDIT: SATA is a way of connecting hard drives to your computer – thin red cables, as opposed to those thick grey ribbons of IDE. It was purely an internal cable method, until recently.
Considering I don’t know what over half of that means or stands for, yeah, you’re on your own, hon. Sorry.
But I can still give big geeky hugs because you’re psyched!
*BIG HUGS TO THE SKENNEDY*
Hey! I haven’t heard from you in a long time! How as Otep?
Its actually tonight…I’m getting ready right now. I’m sure it will be incredible!
Wouldn’t know anything about having more ppl that are non-technophiles than are, on ones IM/LJ/whatever friends list.
Heh! I’m sure :D
Sick, dude. You have a drive lined up to use with that? I want to see what one of these external sata cables looks like, too.
There ya go, that’s the setup I have at the moment :) No enclosure means I have to be inches away from the desktop :)
Have they gotten the matching drives/drive enclosures, though? Although I suppose you could take ye olde external USB drive enclosure & just drill a hole where you want the SATA to go- I wouldn’t feel comfy w/o an enclosure on my external drive.
Right here. :) Actually, there is a new standard – eSATA, with more durable cable ends. I’m going to have to get a converter, because the PC card I have is made for the internal cables, but the enclosure I want and will eventually have is of the eSATA standard.
*looks ever so slightly offended*
You weren’t on IM, that I could tell.
Ah, you meant at the time.
Oooo, quite precariously does that hard drive sits there. :)
Hey, that’s pretty awesome. I had to give up on the SATA concept when I (re-)discovered I was one PCI port short.