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 -- Digby R. S. Tarvin digbyt(at)digbyt.com http://www.digbyt.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
