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  1. 04-11-2004, 02:42 PM #1
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    Question is there a FW800 enclosure that does S-ATA drives?

    im seeing a lot of the usual enclosures using P-ATA drives, and some using FW800. im curious to kow if any enclosures out there support S-ATA drives.

    anyone know of any? TIA!
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    if there isnt any, i may explore using a FW800 enclosure for my raptor drive, using a SATA to PATA adapter.
    im still coming up with NO luck on native FW800 SATA enclosures though...
    there are pictures, but no,nothing happens on my site.
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    Quote Originally Posted by redcolours
    if there isnt any, i may explore using a FW800 enclosure for my raptor drive, using a SATA to PATA adapter.
    im still coming up with NO luck on native FW800 SATA enclosures though...
    I don't think it's a good idea to use the adapter. If I want to use SATA, I just use the MB connection.
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    external sata enclousre
    http://www.valuedisk.com/vdsahdkit.asp

    it allows for an external sata connection. They make PCMCIA adaptors for this. They dont have any SATA to FW800 enclosures that I am aware of. This is because ATA100 is about the same performance of FW800. SATA is 50% faster, but this speed will be lost due to the FW bus.

    The 10k RPM drive will help seek times, but again, you are limited to FW800's speeds.

    I would be hesitant to use external SATA. I have never heard of any other company using external SATA drives.
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    This company makes external USB 2.0 SATA drives, but are very expensive.

    http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/chart...d,20421,00.asp
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    Quote Originally Posted by johnnymk
    This company makes external USB 2.0 SATA drives, but are very expensive.

    http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/chart...d,20421,00.asp
    that drive is an external sata drive. It uses an external sata port, not a USB port.
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  7. 04-12-2004, 10:17 AM #7
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    Quote Originally Posted by ribitch
    that drive is an external sata drive. It uses an external sata port, not a USB port.
    Yes, you are right. I found this in the latest article in PC World pertaining to external hard drives. I didn't even know that there was such a thing as an external SATA port. NEAT!!
    It has a very high transfer rate, though.
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