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Is there a way to install SATA on Gen 2?

post #1 of 11
2/5/06 at 6:26am
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The latest intel chipset update for the Gen 2 came out recently and one of the things it does is to add support for SATA drives, I was wondering is there any way to modify the PATA connection to SATA?
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post #2 of 11
2/5/06 at 6:39am
1) IDE -> SATA CABLE
2) A SATA PCMCIA Card

Thats all I can think of
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post #3 of 11
2/5/06 at 6:41am
But wouldn't an IDE to SATA cable defeat the purpose of the increased speed?
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post #4 of 11
2/5/06 at 6:50am
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Originally Posted by fs454
But wouldn't an IDE to SATA cable defeat the purpose of the increased speed?
yea indeed it would
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post #5 of 11
2/5/06 at 9:10am
No, there is no way
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post #6 of 11
2/5/06 at 9:50am
Yes, there is no way - the cables for 2.5" hard drives aren't the standard 80-pin ATA-100 spec cables, so an adapter wouldn't work.
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post #7 of 11
2/5/06 at 11:51am
I use a pcmcia SATA card, it works fine and is nice and fast, though you dont get the max throughput that you would expect unfortunately.

I use this one with no problems whatsoever

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...tem=8748595277

When you put the laptop in suspend mode, the external sata hard disk also goes into suspend mode and turns off which is rather cool
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post #8 of 11
2/5/06 at 12:15pm
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Originally Posted by Ice_Cold
No, there is no way
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post #9 of 11
2/5/06 at 7:39pm
Meh, laptop hard drives aren't all that fast anyways...I don't think I'm missing out on much.
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post #10 of 11
2/5/06 at 10:32pm
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all right then thanks a bunch guys!
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post #11 of 11
2/6/06 at 11:27am
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Originally Posted by |-007-|
Meh, laptop hard drives aren't all that fast anyways...I don't think I'm missing out on much.

Agreed. SATA on a laptop is marketing fodder.

Solid state storage is coming anyway.

-Doc
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