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Serial ATA bits

"A close-up of the connector on the Serial ATA data lead.", "sata-data-lead.jpg"=>"A Serial ATA data lead. Note that this lead is only 20cm long, it was the only lead that I could buy cost-effectively from the supplier I was ordering from. In a single-disk system, with the drive mounted under the floppy bay, you'd probably be ok, but I'd really recommend a longer lead. By contrast, the 1m lead supplied with the adaptec card I bought is a bit excessive, the diagonal dimension of my biggest case is only just 1m.", "sata-drive-connectors.jpg"=>"Note that some of the contacts are longer than others. This is important in hot-swapping. I read somewhere that the power contacts should be made in three groups (ground, pre-charge, the rest) but this HDD seems to have them in only two groups. The data interface has a differential pair for transmit and receive, and three ground wires.", "sata-drive.jpg"=>"A Serial ATA drive, its a Seagate, in a Sea-shell (they're good).", "sata-power-lead.jpg"=>"A Serial ATA power adaptor lead. Which is nice." ); $mysize=0.0; $dirs=`ls -1tr serial-ata/*.jpg`; $dirs.=`ls -1tr serial-ata/*.gif`; $dirnames=split("\n", $dirs); $size=count($dirnames); for ($i=0; $i<=($size-2); $i++) {?>
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