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Title: HARD DRIVES & MACS...?
Post by: ADSR on March 23, 2008, 01:18:01 PM

Just went to macway.fr to look for an ata  drive...there's a lot of choice but if i choose for my DA got only one...?
Are drives so dedicated for a specific mac...???

GR

Title: HARD DRIVES & MACS...?
Post by: krissel on March 26, 2008, 09:32:50 AM

The DA's can use any ATA drive that is under 128G. A larger drive will not be able to use the full space. However you can put in a PCI card controller for ATA or SATA and this will allow you to use nearly any size drive. I have two SATA controllers in my DA and run one 500G drive and two 320G drives. The SATA drives are faster than ATA.

Title: HARD DRIVES & MACS...?
Post by: ADSR on March 26, 2008, 01:47:38 PM

QUOTE(krissel @ Mar 26 2008, 03:32 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

The DA's can use any ATA drive that is under 128G. A larger drive will not be able to use the full space. However you can put in a PCI card controller for ATA or SATA and this will allow you to use nearly any size drive. I have two SATA controllers in my DA and run one 500G drive and two 320G drives. The SATA drives are faster than ATA.

A larger drive  can be partitioned....?

What kind of  SATA card  do you suggest...?

Thanks


GR

Title: HARD DRIVES & MACS...?
Post by: tacit on March 26, 2008, 03:03:26 PM

QUOTE(ADSR @ Mar 26 2008, 06:47 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

A larger drive  can be partitioned....?

What kind of  SATA card  do you suggest...?

Thanks


GR

You can not get around the 128GB limit by partitioning. The hard drive controller chip is physically incapable of seeing more than 128 GB no matter how it's partitioned.

If you do get a SATA card, make sure the box says it is Mac compatible. As long as it's Mac compatible, you should be OK.

Title: HARD DRIVES & MACS...?
Post by: ADSR on March 26, 2008, 07:49:59 PM

 for the infos...

GR

Title: HARD DRIVES & MACS...?
Post by: krissel on March 27, 2008, 01:51:30 AM

This is the one I have running my two 320 Seagates:

http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Sonnet%20Technology/TSATA/

The other one came as a combo with the 500G Maxtor :

http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Firmtek/FTST1S2/


There are couple others here:

http://eshop.macsales.com/item/ACARD/AEC6290M/

http://eshop.macsales.com/Search/Search.cf...43&Ntt=sata

Title: HARD DRIVES & MACS...?
Post by: ADSR on March 27, 2008, 07:04:11 AM

By by ATA  future will be SATA

Thanks Krissel