Sata or ATA-100 hard drive inside? I was hoping to find out if there's a SATA or a ATA-100 hard drive in this external hard drive??
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Hello, there is a 2.5" SATA drive inside the case. A Momentus 5400.3 to be exact.
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no,its made for sata drives,but they used to make one for ata drives but I dont know if amazon carries them .
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I don't think there's a reliable answer because I think WD puts in whatever drive is available. I haven't heard WD give any answer to this question. It's really slow, so it may be a 5400 drive.
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There's also a photo of the adapter label that displays all of the information on it, Sirik. It's on the initial product page, with the other product photos. I was about to upload one myself, then I saw that a photo is already there... Good luck! It's a very reliable drive with great features!
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It's SATA. I know this because I had to open mine up to extract the hard drive.Sadly.
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I don't think it matters. From the PDF it looks like they're both sata connections. I think I picked the one that gave the hard drive the most room.
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I've never heard of any external hard drive NOT working on a PC... You might have to reformat, but HDs labeled for Macs should work in PCs (but NOT the other way around!).
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A Sata Hard drive are very easy to come by in many sizes. Just seach amazon for a SATA hard drive and pick your size. Be sure to check what type of sata drive you need. I think this unit needs a SATA 2 or 3. I purchased a 400GB hard drive and it works great.Something like this ... WD Black 320 GB Mobile Hard Drive, 2.5 Inch, 7200 RPM, SATA II, 16 MB Cache (WD3200BEKT) (Old Model)
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A Sata Hard drive are very easy to come by in many sizes. Just seach amazon for a SATA hard drive and pick your size. Be sure to check what type of sata drive you need. I think this unit needs a SATA 2 or 3. I purchased a 400GB hard drive and it works great. Something like this ... http://www.amazon.com/Black-320-Mobile-Hard-Drive/dp/B001CO3EKQ/ref=sr_1_9?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1365438733&sr=1-9&keywords=sata+2+hard+drive
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Google it...it's just a slow 1 terabyte hard drive produced by Western Digital...you can buy from Amazon or Newegg
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It looks like there are slots for SATA 1.0 and SATA 2.0 with one being used by the currently installed hard drive. So there is an available slot to plug one in but I seriously doubt another internal hard drive would physically fit in the case. I would just add an external drive. I have two hooked up to mine :).
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It is an internal hard drive. There are products that will allow you to connect a sata drive to a computer via usb, but you'd probably just be better off buying an external drive.
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All SATA is backward compatible AFAIK. I think that's why Seagate doesn't mention it in their specs. I've never had a problem -- I'm using two of these (3GB each) in a NAS that only supports 3gbs.
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This particular Hard Drive uses Enhanced integrated drive electronics (EIDE) interface; however, WD does manufacture hard drives with SATA (Serial ATA) interface. You need to know what your computer motherboard supports to know what hard drive interface to order.
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I have to say I haven't actually tried it with ATA100 drives. But typically an interface that will work at ATA133 will support ATA100. I note someone else said it doesn't work with ATA133 - but I am using it with ATA133 just fine. I can boot from ATA133. Please note that I have NOT used this device in RAID modes - only as an interface for PATA and SATA drives non-RAID.
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There is a similar product for a SATA drive at a reasonable price. I used one and a good SATA drive from a dead (motherboard) PC to give my son some extra game system storage.
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I don't know if it is SATA. But my computer hardware store can't fix it, and I have to send to a special lab and spend $2000 to give it a try. The tech guy told me that this particular serial number has long been plagued with the issue, and the company still try to unload them. I don't like the company and any thing from it.