I hope this is the right place 4 post. I am looking at a Western Digital Caviar WD1200JB Special Edition - Hard drive - 120 GB - internal - 3.5" ATA-100 - 7200 rpm - buffer: 8 MB.I want to turn it into external.I want to put in a bytecc enclosure "ME-32OU2".It states it accepts ide.The drive says it is an ide drive.The confusion for me is the ATA-100,ultra dma,ata 133,I've also noticed ata/150.What do these things have to do with me getting the right enclosure? Thank you in advance for any one that can help.I looked in the glossary on AD but found nothing. Dalliss
ATA-100: an older spec which support 100Mbytes/sec burst. Also referred to as UDMA Mode 5 ATA-133: the current parallelwhich supports 133Mbytes/sec burst. Also known as UDMA Mode 6 ATA-150: a newer, serial specification which supports 150Mbytes/sec burst. Referred to as... you guessed it... UDMA Mode 7. You will see UDMA and ATA interchanged a lot. Not all that much since, ATA66, ATA100 and ATA133 have the same type of connections. Any enclosure that supports one of them supports the others as well. Now for ATA150, aka Serial-ATA (i.e., SATA), I dont think enclosures exist for them yet. But since your drive is a parallel drive, almost all enclosures support PATA drives so you should be okay As for performance, most external enclosures run Firewire or USB2 which limits you to ~60Mbytes/sec burst anyways. I'd reccommend the ADS USB2 enclosure as I've had very good personal experience with it http://www.circuitcity.com/detail.jsp?oid=79779&WT.mc_n=34&c=1&b=g&u=c&WT.mc_t=U Havnt heard of that model but it should work for your drive. The only concern is if its a really old model it will be using the ATA33-type cables which, while they will work for your ATA100 drive, will limit you to ATA33 speeds. Given that ATA33 is probably 8 years old now its highly unlikely but a possibility so i mention it _X_X_X_X_X_[small]ASUS A7N8X-X, XP2500+ OC'd to XP3200+ Samsung 1024MB, PC2700 OC'd to PC3200 480GB [3x160GB, 7200, 8MB] EVGA, GeForce4 Ti4600 128MB Rules and Policies: http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/2487[/small]
Make sure the caddy is usb2 and not enhanced usb or similar and that it works with your os as i bought one that said it was enhanced usb and windows compatible but wouldn't work with w2k
Dalliss, If you haven't bought the enclosure yet, I recommend making sure you get one that supports both firewire and USB 2. USB is alright for drives, but firewire was designed for the type of data transfers you'll be doing, and it works much better. I have a Bytecc enclosure myself, and sent another to my brother in Afghanistan, both with similar hard drives to the one you mentioned (but 160GB), and we both love them. I do almost all my DVD backup work on that drive through a firewire port. _X_X_X_X_X_[small]Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for a night. Set him on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life Backup A DVD With DVD Rebuilder & CCE Basic: http://www.afterdawn.com/guides/archive/dvd_rebuilder_tutorial.cfm[/small]
