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09-30-2007, 10:19 PM
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10-01-2007, 02:06 AM
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Does anyone know what hard drive is inside the enclosure?
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Ummm... a "Maxtor" drive would be my guess.  How specific of info are you looking for? On the Staple's website, the tech specs are the following... Quote:
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10-01-2007, 11:52 AM
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Well, I guess I'd like to know if it's a pata or sata drive in there...
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10-01-2007, 12:15 PM
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This is an EXTERNAL drive, so it doesn't use the IDE or SATA interfaces... only USB. Were you planning on getting one and then swapping the drive out for something else?  Maybe you can call Seagate and ask them directly about it? The model number on it is Personal Storage U01H500 and here is a link to the Seagate website for that product: http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/sup...rsonal-storage |
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10-01-2007, 06:17 PM
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10-01-2007, 11:35 PM
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I always thought the drives could be removed from their enclosures to be used internally. I recalled from older deals external drives where people would pull the drives from the enclosure to use in their computers. Unless some companies design them specifically without the interface? (which I can't imagine they'd do without driving production cost up...) |
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10-02-2007, 11:03 AM
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Yeah, you can do that. It's just a regular 'ol desktop drive in there, so you can certainly crack it open & put it inside of a machine if you like.
Most external drives I've seen have been ATA, but more & more seem to be SATA (like the WD MyBook I believe uses SATA drives). So yeah, it could go either way but if I were a betting man, I'd put my money on it being SATA. |
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