| From: | Gareth Griffiths |
| Date: | 10 Aug 2000 at 12:56:25 |
| Subject: | Re: Hard Drive 2.5 or 3.5? |
> Can I use a 3.5" drive with my existing HD cable or do I need a new cable?
> Are there any advantages in having a 2.5" drive over a 3.5" drive?
If you don't have a buffered interface, then no you can't. If you have a
buffered interface, you can just connect the 3.5" drive up to one of the
40-pin ports, using a standard 40-pin IDE cable (you should be able to pick
one up for a couple of quid from your local PC shop)
You can get cables to allow you to connect a 40pin device into a 44-pin
socket (like the one on the A1200 motherboard) but they don't have the
voltage cables, so you need a buffered interface really.
That's my experience anyway. Why not get a buffered interface if you don't
have one, and then you can use both drives at the same time.
> Obviously the 3.5" drives are considerably cheaper than the 2.5" drives so
> preferably I want to purchase one of those.
Indeed.
Catch ya later,
GazChap.
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