Posted by: frog51
Mmmm - terabyte empeg - 03/01/2008 10:55
RegHardware 500Gb laptop drive I just got a warm and fuzzy feel for 2008.
Posted by: andy
Re: Mmmm - terabyte empeg - 03/01/2008 12:26
I though the consensus was that there might just be enough room to squeeze in IDE-SATA converters ?
Posted by: Roger
Re: Mmmm - terabyte empeg - 03/01/2008 13:01
I thought that you had to sacrifice one of the disks to squeeze the adapter in? Could be wrong though.
Posted by: canuckInOR
Re: Mmmm - terabyte empeg - 03/01/2008 19:43
Even so, I can see in the future that you'd be farther ahead in terms of space, by losing a disk to fit in the adapter, than sticking with two disks and no adapter.
If space constraints required you had to lose a disk to fit in the adapter, you may still be able to fit in a CF adapter as the second disk.
Posted by: msaeger
Re: Mmmm - terabyte empeg - 03/01/2008 20:30
Since we're nitpicking according to where I read about it (can't remember) it is taller too because they crammed another platter in there to up the capacity.
Posted by: Phoenix42
Re: Mmmm - terabyte empeg - 03/01/2008 20:43
12.5mm Vs 9.5mm that smaller capacity drives store.
My grey matter seems to recall that the Mk1 was picky about drive height, but that this was not hte case with the Mk2/2a.
Posted by: larry818
Re: Mmmm - terabyte empeg - 04/01/2008 00:16
What's tomorrow's lottery numbers?
Posted by: altman
Re: Mmmm - terabyte empeg - 04/01/2008 04:30
Yeah, back then the big drives were seriously big... ISTR we had a 14GB IBM monster that was 19mm....
Hugo
Posted by: andym
Re: Mmmm - terabyte empeg - 04/01/2008 09:41
I remember doing my first drive upgrade and the finding that the 30GB drive I was putting in was nearly half the height of the 10GB one I was taking out!
Posted by: canuckInOR
Re: Mmmm - terabyte empeg - 04/01/2008 16:36
What's tomorrow's lottery numbers?
What... and have to split the prize? I don't think so!