Posts by drewprops

Oh buddy, if I had a tower I'd totally look into jamming an eSATA card into it and using those enclosures... as it is, I'll be dropping back into IDE just to have a dependable drive that's faster than the one built into the iMac (plus...

Hey guys, This is an update, for anyone else who wanders down this particular path... So today my SATA to IDE host adapter arrived and so I slipped hooked it up to the drive, bunged the drive down into the enclosure and fired that...

Oh my golly, I missed Fellowship's message Wow, how long has it been? And with a new little boy?!! (or was that one of y'all's doggie threads?)

We actually covered the Watermelon thing over at AN one time back in '05, here's the link to that story.... but of course it was something from back over here at AI... though it must have been from pre-blackout (unless there have been...

'Burb, we were trying figure out how to tell you this... but the whole "AppleNova is Down" thing was just a ruse. Have fun over here at AI, they're really swell people and they'll take care of you and everything!! Um, you...

Quote: Originally Posted by Karelia Oh, I totally forgot about the FireWire part. 1.33Gb versus 3.0Gb makes no difference when both are going through 400Mb. If the IDE/SATA bridge works for you, don't worry about changing to a SATA...

Hassan was living in London and had a penchant for having his really nice bicycle stolen every so often. The details are his own, but needless to say you don't want anything you love to be kept near his bicycle.... And as far as the...

I'm unfamiliar with how the write speed of optical devices coincide with bus speeds... this setup would have data pushed out at Firewire 400 speed, through IDE, translated into SATA, to a 20x DVD burner.... if it works at all I'll be...

Oooo, thanks for the comparison talksense101, I was wondering if someone could give me an idea if I'd take a hit on the performance of the SATA drive. I wonder how long it'll be before the jam is broken on getting 5.25 SATA-ready...

For anyone who wants to find out what Ron Paul is all about, he's currently on Meet the Press for an hour discussion with Tim Russert. I didn't know that he wants to pull out of North Korea as quickly as pulling the troops out of Iraq....