{"id":251,"date":"2007-06-14T23:46:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-14T23:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bullit.net\/al\/wordpress\/?p=251"},"modified":"2007-08-30T19:49:10","modified_gmt":"2007-08-30T18:49:10","slug":"ext-disks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bullit.net\/al\/2007\/06\/14\/ext-disks\/","title":{"rendered":"Ext disks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a need for external storage. Mainly to make &#8216;backups&#8217; portable *cough*. I also feel the need for more disk on my MacBook so I can install Windows (work means I need to, sadly). So, I was thinking I&#8217;d buy an external 160GB 2.5&#8243; drive and swap that disk into my MacBook and put the 60GB in my MacBook into the enclosure. PC World have Maxtor jobs for 80quid, which is nice, but I note from http:\/\/www.maxtorsolutions.com\/en\/catalog\/OTIII_Mini\/ that these claim to be ATA, now ATA to me means PATA and not SATA. I need SATA so ATA wouldn&#8217;t work &#8211; but of course ATA could be PATA or SATA so I am confused. Anyone know if a) the Maxtor minis are SATA b) the drive is swapable? Alternative options welcomed. Ta.<\/p>\n<p><em>Update:<\/em> It is a Seagate Momentus 5400.3 inside, which is an Ultra ATA\/100 drive, so no go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a need for external storage. Mainly to make &#8216;backups&#8217; portable *cough*. I also feel the need for more disk on my MacBook so I can install Windows (work means I need to, sadly). So, I was thinking I&#8217;d buy an external 160GB 2.5&#8243; drive and swap that disk into my MacBook and put [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bullit.net\/al\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bullit.net\/al\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bullit.net\/al\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bullit.net\/al\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bullit.net\/al\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bullit.net\/al\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bullit.net\/al\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bullit.net\/al\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bullit.net\/al\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}