[TriLUG] SAS vs. SATA performance

[Reid Sayre]

Laptops have either SATA or ATA/EIDE disk interfaces on the motherboard. 
If your laptop is old enough to have an ATA/EIDE disk interface, that's 
the kind you have to use.

Having said that, you can get 100GB, 7200 RPM, 8MB cache, ATA-6/EIDE OEM 
drives mail order for about $100.

In 2005, I put one of these in my Thinkpad A31P (vintage 2002) and it 
made a huge performance difference.

Reid Sayre

Lee wrote:
> On Jul 27, 2007, at 6:04 AM, Tim Jowers wrote:
>
>   
>>     I just wish my laptop had a fast drive. Forget power  
>> requirements, DOES
>> ANYONE KNOW of a simple way to put a fast SATA disk into a laptop?  
>> For now
>> I've been using an external, USB-connected drive.
>>     
>
> Put it INTO a laptop, no. Use it ON a laptop, yes. Simply get  
> yourself a PCMCIA/PCCard eSATA card. Then you can use an eSATA  
> external box at whatever your bus speed is.
> -Lee
>   

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