Toys arrived - technical help sought

[ciphergoth]

Toys that arrived today:

- Pocket DV cam and 512 Mb flash card (only a toy video camera but will still be fun)
- USB 4-port hub (I was running out of ports)
- DVD +- rewriter (good for backups and for making my own DVDs)
- 120 GB SATA hard drive

(This on top of toys that arrived the other day, viz two DDR mats and PS2 - USB adapter)

The hard drive does not have the connectors I'm used to. I thought that SATA was like any other upgrade to the IDE standard, where the connectors stay the same and the drive and controller talk the best protocol that they both know. Now I have no idea how to plug my new hard drive in, or even how to give it power. Anyone know the story?

Comments

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

Nisis Pocket DV2. I'm not under the impression it has a great many competitors but I could be wrong...

[lovingboth]

There are one or two now. They've also done a DV3 (slightly better screen, but I never bother with the screen as you can aim it fine without, comes with a small memory card) and they're going to do a DV4 (adds MP3 player!?!)

I love mine - particularly for toddler filming and theatre bootlegging - and I wish it'd been available a year earlier than it was. Oh, and its low light abilities are crap.

Where did you get it from?

What everyone else said about the hard drive. The price of 120G 7200rpm 8Mbyte cache ordinary UDMA EIDE drives is now low enough to get me to buy a couple recently. See if you can return this one or sell it quick. The speed advantage over UDMA EIDE is approximately nil, but having a larger cache does make a difference.