Hard Drives

[black knight]

Ok I found an old computer HD, I want to connect it to my laptop via USB, my brother said theres an adapter you can get for it to do that. Could someone tell me where I could find that. Ill post some pics of it later, my cameras dead. Im not sure how big it is.

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[zz_tophat]

Doesn't sounds like a piece of hardware that can easily be found in the big chain stores, sounds like something you'll need to order.

http://www.newegg.com/ maybe?

[Bisjac]

Is usb even fast enough? I know sata is faster then usb, but whatever the older hd's whatever# pin connectors I wouldn't know.
Its the reason I won't use external harddrives for more then just storage.
I require speed when I run apps and games, and usb is to slow.

[zz_tophat]

Is usb even fast enough? I know sata is faster then usb, but whatever the older hd's whatever# pin connectors I wouldn't know.
Its the reason I won't use external harddrives for more then just storage.
I require speed when I run apps and games, and usb is to slow.

I run games on my external with no noticeable lag. Try enabling files caches.

[General Nick]

I run games on my external with no noticeable lag. Try enabling files caches.

I run Blockland, Red Alert 3 and WoW all on my 80 GB USB HDD.

[Orgodemirk]

My friend has an external hard drive casing that you can unscrew and place an IDE hard drive into. And, yes, USB 2.0 is fast enough.

[black knight]

Im just gonna use it for storage and such. Not to run, I found out it has 8Gigs storage space.

[D3ATH]

Im jsut gonna use it for storage and such. Not to run, I found out it has 8Gigs storage space.

Then it's ancient.

[General Nick]

Some external HDDs are obviously hard drives on the inside, but use a small, small SATA cable to transfer from the HDD to the USB cable and into your computer.

[D3ATH]

My laptop has some e-Sata port.
Is e-Sata faster than USB?

[Reactor Worker]

Im just gonna use it for storage and such. Not to run, I found out it has 8Gigs storage space.

You can get an 8 GB flashdrive for under $20 now. No need to spend extra time, money and hassle on trying to resurrect an old drive.

[Valen]

You can get an 8 GB flashdrive for under $20 now. No need to spend extra time, money and hassle on trying to resurrect an old drive.

If it's not that expensive and has more memory, why not?

[black knight]

It has some of my old stuff on it, thats why I want it.