For my after-Christmas wish list....
Dec. 11th, 2008 12:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poltr1I have two empty Macally external drive enclosers, both EIDE (parallel ATA). One's for laptop-sized drives (2.5" wide, 9mm high); the other's for standard hard drives (3.5" wide). I'd like to purchase Western Digital EIDE drives for both of them, but I can't afford to do so right now. I'm worried that I won't be able to find these soon, as the market has gone toward SATA (serial ATA) drives, which have a much faster throughput rate. (According to the specs, SATA can push data at 3 Gb/sec vs. EIDE/PATA at 100 Mb/sec.)
I realize this is purely a want, not a need, as I already have enough external drive storage. What's driving this is the waning availablity of these drives. I'm afraid these will be out of stock by the time I'm ready to buy them.
[Added 20:45]
Here's what I'd like to purchase next month:
1) Western Digital "Caviar Blue" WD5000AAJB (500 Gb, EIDE, 8 Mb cache)
2) Western Digital "Scorpio Blue" WD2500BEVE (250 Gb, EIDE, 8 Mb cache)
I realize this is purely a want, not a need, as I already have enough external drive storage. What's driving this is the waning availablity of these drives. I'm afraid these will be out of stock by the time I'm ready to buy them.
[Added 20:45]
Here's what I'd like to purchase next month:
1) Western Digital "Caviar Blue" WD5000AAJB (500 Gb, EIDE, 8 Mb cache)
2) Western Digital "Scorpio Blue" WD2500BEVE (250 Gb, EIDE, 8 Mb cache)
