[thechat] ATA drives for Mac?

[Martin]

On Tuesday, April 16, 2002, at 01:24  pm, Bob Davis wrote:

> At 11:52 AM +0100 4/16/02, Martin wrote:
>>
>> So the questions are:
>> 1) Is it possible to have a second drive (the very thought of the
>>     data migration involved in a drive swap brings me out in a
>>    cold sweat)
>
> Yeah. I'm pretty sure you can add a second drive. There should be an
> article similar to the B&W one for yours outlining the locations.

OK, thanks.

>> 2) Would any old ATA drive work or is there a special 'mac
>> configuration'
>>     needed? I'm thinking along the lines of
>>     http://store.westerndigital.com/product.asp?sku=1638354
>>    which should last until the end of the machine's useful life.
>
> Any old drive should work. I personally wouldn't trust a Western
> Digital drive, but some people do.
> I like Seagate drives. IIRC, the box MEO lives on has a number of
> Seagate Cheetah drives.  They're nice.

OK, thanks for the steer.

> If I were you, I'd seriously think about getting an external firewire
> drive. You would be able to move it easily from one machine to the
> other.  Of course, you could do that with an internal as well.

Need a Firewire card first, but that's doable. (quickly scans Dabs)
hell, those drives aren't cheap...

Cheers
Martin
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