Small Drives

[progbuddy]

This is the new small. It is an actual HD. I want to know how to make an IDE/USB adapter. This would be a neat idea for desktops. They would take up less wattage, less space, and spare the heat.

http://i.walmart.com/i/p/00/83/31/82/00/0083318200078_215X215.jpg

[GT40_GearHead]

it would be nice, but dont forget the slower acces times

[DaveW]

Plus the fact that it won't last as long and costs more.

Just wait a year or so for solid state drives. The success of SATAII has ripened the market for faster Hard Drives.

-Dave

[progbuddy]

well, ive seen them as cheap as 70 dollars with 2 gigs

[CanaBalistic]

It would be cool if it had a plug and play sata connector insted of usb

[MitaPi]

Well it sure is shiney! I would buy it if it had a keychain hook up spot.

Seagate has 5 gig ones.

[qoou]

40 gigs nice and small. (http://www.soyousa.com/products/proddesc.php?id=343)

[chedabob]

you are paying more for less storage. thats daft. a 3 1/2 inch sata drive isnt exactly massive.

[Cannibal23]

im not sure about the life span of solid state drives, but i know that they sure are expensive for what you get. as an alternative, you may concider getting a laptop hard drive and an adaptor that will make it possable to connect it to ide. if you really must have a usb interface then use the link in the post a few above this one. all that is is a laptop drive in a little box with a little adaptor at the back. the 3 major issues with useing a laptop drive however are cost (those little buggers are not so cheap!), speed is alot slower i find and reliability. it seems to me that laptop drives are more seseptable to wearing out then standard desktop drives.

[EPYK]

i read somewhere that usb was faster on the bandwidth then sata and ata.
firewire was also faster

and if your going small just get an ipod HDD

[progbuddy]

How about BluRay? I know theyre expensive, but theyre nice. Also, an internal firewire/IDE adaptor would be nice. I have firewire 2.0, and i can stream video from my MiniDV camcorder at a high framerate and resolution. I think it would be a LOT faster than IDE. Streaming video at a high quality is just the tip of the iceberg.

What happened to tape drives? (lol they were awesome for their time.)

[EPYK]

tape drives are awsome for backing up hard drives but dont dont come anywhere to the speed of todays or yesterdays hard drives... they have high capacity but becuase the data is in a linear form and not a disk, it takes for ever to load ne thing

[progbuddy]

I know, but they were awesome for the day, esp. when you had about 30 running at the same time (like old air traffic control PCs).

[Airbozo]

I used to manage some tape robots and you can use multiple tape drives in a raid fashion to acheive faster than disk (not raided disks though) performance depending on the interface. At the time I was backing up over 3 Tb of data every weekend (Massive amounts of data for the time). DLT drives were _fast_ and reliable. Today almost every data center still uses tape backup systems. Some so massive that you can open the door and walk in. Take Digital Globe (the people who take and process the satelite images you see on google maps). They have a couple of jukebox storage systems that are about 16'L x 6'W x 7'H. When the robot starts moving it really fly's!