[clug] Video card

[Eyal Lebedinsky]

On 07/11/14 00:45, Bryan Kilgallin wrote:
> Thanks, Eyal:
>
>> I also have several sata Hard Disk drives, 80 GB to 120 GB  in
>>>> capacity, that need to be disposed of.
>>>
>>> That's a lot more than I currently have!
>>
>> This sounds really scary... then again, if you do not keep any media then you do not
>> need much storage.
>
> You scare easily.
>
> Then again, I am not a hog of videos or music.
>
>> But if you do need more storage then I have a few old pata/sata disks of the 3.5"
>> 120/250/320/400GB kind that were retired a while ago.
>
> I don't know what "pata" is. But I have a USB SATA hard disk drive docking station.

PATA (Parallel ATA) is the old disk attachment using 40 pins with a wide flat cable.
SATA (Serial ATA) is the later way, using a narrow cable.

cheers

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Eyal Lebedinsky (eyal at eyal.emu.id.au)