Re: External SATA HD for 3 yr old Dell laptop- waste of money?

Good point meerkat. Newegg has a 250GB SATA 16MB cache hd for $75. So it
will still work with my ATA system (backwards compatible), right?


"meerkat" <xxxx@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"TD" <goodtogo@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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I need to order a new external drive from Newegg for use with my 2004
Dell
8600 laptop, and was guessing that I probably wouldn't realize the
benefits
of an SATA unit without an SATA-enabled motherboard. Am I correct, or is
there some other upside to going ahead with the SATA over an Ultra ATA?

Only if you might move the SATA on yo another
machine in the future.




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