Re: Hard Drives

[Stuart Poulton <stuart.poulton@xxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2003-11-28 at 09:58, Richard Malcolm-Smith wrote:
> Also be aware that sata drives have a different power connector, so
you will
> need to get annoying adaptor leads for all your drives.

Up until yesterday I thought that the new power connector on SATA drives
was a really bad idea.
I then built a machine using a case with SATA drive carriers, the beauty of
connector becomes
clear when you see that both the data and power connections exist in a
simple low friction
hot swappable connector. Connections from the carrier back plane to the PC
are now
simple 1 power connector per 3 drives in this case an 3 SATA cable, a god
send compared to
PATA cables.

Regards

STuart