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From: "Bob Stia" <rnr@sanctum.com>
To: <slug@nks.net>
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 6:02 PM
Subject: [SLUG] SATA
> Hello Sluggers,
>
> Just bought me a new 250G sata hard drive. Already running two older IDE
> drives.
>
> Going to use it for backups, put SUSE 10.2 on it and some data storage.
> Have a question about the drive though. Has a jumper on it. Got no
> documentation, warranty, etc about the drive (Seagate) from NewEgg.
>
> I googled a bunch about this jumper and only served to confuse me. ie:
> only remove/change for "enterprise", "changing jumper increase
> throughput" etc.
>
> So what say the Sluggers. Educate the old guy.
>
> Bob S.
Well this explains a lot on SATA.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_ATA
Thing is with SATA is they are hot swappable. I like the idea that i can
swap a drive into any computer and instantly have use of all the data and
self contained programs on that drive. But of course this does not work
between Windows and Linux. it. Maybe some day all programming of OS'es will
be the same when and if we ever figure out how to have just one programming
language for all computers.
Installing more drives just gives you more drive letters with additional
space Kinda like USB.
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