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

[conflux.livejournal.com]

This was why for my server I went for 60Mbyte/s transfer rate LVD SCSI drives. More expensive but much more reliable.

The SCSI card came from Ebay to keep the cost down but was still £40 the drives were only cheap 7200rpm Fujitsu ones and were only a little more than the equivalent ATA133 drives when I brought them. Cheap SCSI drives are not common though.

The fact that I was using them in a linux soft raid format also meant that SCSI was a good choice as there is less contention. The net result is that when I want to backup data the transfer rate to and from the server is limited by the 100Mbit/s ethernet link.

[conflux.livejournal.com]

Or even 160Mb/s tranfer rate...