Re: [OM] 1TB drives now under $100

[Chuck Norcutt [Permanent Link]]

But you can buy an eSATA adapter for $10-20 from Newegg.

Chuck Norcutt

Daniel Sepke wrote:
> John,
> 
> It depends on the motherboard you have in your machine. Check the makers
> site as depending on age you may find it has a couple of ports, even if it
> is three or four years old it may have some. 
> 
> If the board you have doesn't support them I would personally consider a
> trade up of motherboard over adding a SATA controller. It can be affordable
> especially when recycling some of your old machine in the process. I have
> just built 12 machines for work based on the affordable yet surprisingly
> powerful Intel DG31PR motherboard, hitched to an E8400 C2D processor and 2Gb
> of RAM. This combo has a total cost around $300 depending on if you need to
> upgrade the power supply. The board has four SATA ports but still supports
> one channel of IDE controller for legacy drives and CD-ROM drives (mixing
> HDD and optical on the same buss will slow down the HDD data rate though).
> The board also has a floppy controller and PS/2 peripheral support which
> makes it a good choice of transitional builds and rebuilds of older
> machines. This does assume that you have a full copy of Windows to reload on
> the newer drive too.
> 
> Dan S.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Hermanson
> Subject: Re: [OM] 1TB drives now under $100
> 
> My computer has eide drives, If I put in a sata drive, will that plug
> directly into the motherboard or is there some kind of sata adapter
> board involved?
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