[mythtv-users] Way! OT Epson wless printer as NAS

Greg Oliver oliver.greg at gmail.com
Thu Jan 14 16:38:14 UTC 2010


On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 10:29 AM, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
> On Thursday 14 January 2010 09:20:49 am Greg Oliver wrote:
>
>> I just got a 1TB USB drive to rip it open and replant it in a E-SATA
>> case only to find out the fols at WD put the USB interface right on
>> the circuit board, and left off the sata connections completely..
>> what a waste..  It is only a 5400 rpm drive, but I would have liked
>> the extra 100mbps or so anyhow....
>
> Thanks, that's good to know. I have seen great prices on external USB drives
> in the past and bought them to take out the drive and use it directly, now I
> will be more careful about doing that.
>
> It used to be I was taking a chance on the drive being PATA or SATA, now
> there's another possibility :-(
>
> You had a typo, I'm not sure if "fols at WD" was "folks" or "fools", both
> would probably be appropriate.

LOL - like you said - take your pick!

Sad thing is I emailed their support prior to buying to inquire if it
was in fact sata 3..  Their response was "yes".  Pretty vague response
considering I asked technical questions- oh well...  rsync still works
at least :)


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