New Hard Drive

[Les Mikesell]

Karl Larsen wrote:

>>>    I like the rsync method because it is really fast! I had an oops 
>>> with the new hard drive. I learned what sata is and my motherboard is 
>>> too old. But I bought a pci card that should solve that problem at 
>>> the expense of $25.00 and be slow compared to real sata :-(
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Did you order power and data cables too?  They will be different and 
>> last time I had to order them separately even with this newer computer.
>>
>> Bob Goodwin
>>
>    This whole thing is getting out of hand! I spent $110 for a hard 
> drive and then $24 for a controller card and now you verify my fear that 
> I need some cables not part of the controller card. But I can turn this 
> whole thing off yet with a phone call :-)

I'd probably have gone for a cheap identical IDE replacement, but you 
may or may not get a cable.  Sometimes retail boxed drives include them 
but OEM packaged versions don't.

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   Les Mikesell
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