Posts Tagged ‘ide’

Q&A: How To Connect A SATA Drive To An IDE Computer?

August 5, 2009 - 3:15 am 25 Comments

In this video, I answer a question from Jacob who asks “Im doing upgrades on my pc, im adding ram and another hard drive. I saw a 1TB drive on newegg, but my computer uses ide not sata. Is there any way of hooking up that sata drive up to my ide pc?” Thanks for the question Jacob. Fortunately, there are several options available to you Jacob. It depends on what you currently have. If you have a PCI Express slot on your computer, you can use a SATA controller card on your computer which will give you an internal or external option to connect the SATA drive. Another option is to get an external USB enclosure and insert the SATA drive. You can utilize your USB slot on your computer, and you can connect additional drives in the future if this one fills up. Hope this answered you question, Jacob!

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How to make your own external hard drive and use it with Time Machine

July 30, 2009 - 1:14 am 25 Comments

This tutorial teaches you how to take an old hard drive laying around your house and make use of it by turning it into an external hard drive. Once your former internal hard drive, you have to get an external enclosure. Ebay sells them pretty cheap.

Once you have your external enclosure, install your the hard drive into the enclosure and plug it into your Mac. From there you can grab all your old files if you like, but in this tutorial, I teach you how to thoroughly erase the hard drive with no detection of what was on it ever.

After you have erased the hard drive, you now can use it as a regular external hard drive. You just saved lots of money.

If you like to use it as a Time Machine drive, go ahead and go to spotlight, and type in time machine or select it from our dock and set up your new external hard drive with Time Machine.

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Eagle Consus W-Series IDE to USB & Firewire ET-CSWU2F-BK

July 24, 2009 - 3:39 pm 1 Comment

Eagle Consus W-Series made from a solid block of aluminum extruded to exacting measurements. And then treat the entire chassis to a hard and durable coating. The result is superb fit and finish, with sleek curves and exquisite colors that make this elegant unit stand out from the crowd. The use of thermally efficient material and integrated heat sink gets rid of excess heat without fans for an absolutely noise free and maintenance free experience. High quality chipset and rigorous thermal testing ensures peak performance and rock solid stability

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Eagle Consus W-Series SATA/IDE (Hybrid) to USB ET-CSWSIU2-BK

July 18, 2009 - 5:24 am No Comments

Eagle Consus W-Series made from a solid block of aluminum extruded to exacting measurements. And then treat the entire chassis to a hard and durable coating. The result is superb fit and finish, with sleek curves and exquisite colors that make this elegant unit stand out from the crowd. The use of thermally efficient material and integrated heat sink gets rid of excess heat without fans for an absolutely noise free and maintenance free experience. High quality chipset and rigorous thermal testing ensures peak performance and rock solid stability

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Eagle Consus D-Series SATA to USB Firewire RAID ET-CSDU2F-BK

July 12, 2009 - 4:38 am 1 Comment

Eagle Consus D-Series built for media enthusiasts who require speed and capacity, this external RAID storage system is perfect for data intensive content creation applications. It combines two high performance SATA hard drives up to 1 terabyte (TB) each for a massive 2.0 terabyte (TB) of storage. Best in class Oxford chipset ensures smooth delivery of your multimedia contents via FireWire that can be daisy chained with your video cameras and more.
Oxford chipset built-in hardware controller provides 3 configuration mode, JBOD (Spanning) and RAID 0 (Striping). When you go for simple and easy, JBOD (Spanning) combines two hard drives appear to be a single large disk drive or RAID 0 (Striping) for increased data transfer rate.

Integrated 6cm cooling fan ensures long life and reliable operation. The use of these latest generation components enables the D-Series to offer superior real-world performance and reliability. Great for simultaneous playback of multiple streams of video in real-time. There are three primary reasons that RAID was implemented: 1) Redundancy, 2) Increased Performance, 3) Lower Costs

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In Win NA - External HDD Enclosure

July 6, 2009 - 3:25 am 25 Comments

So what do you think about it? Please comment / rate the video. Visit http://pcwizkidstechtalk.com/index.php/inwin-na-review.html for more details on the In win NA external hard drive enclosure device

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