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SATA laptop drive installed into a PC ..?
kitamesume:
doesn't radiators have valves or switches in it that controls how much heat will get released? kind of odd for it to not include one.
datora:
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Got my external (Samsung) 250 GB laptop drive to read and work just fine. Temporarily, I turned my cooked system on. The PSU on it works, although other parts are done for. Used the power feed off that to juice the drive while the data cable is connected to the older back-up computer, then boot & joy. I'll work on the exact wiring issues later and report back. Don't yet have the drive I've been promised to replace the current PATA system drive.
My larger 3.5" drives don't detect at all on this SATA controller; shows up as "VIA Bus Master IDE Controller," so that gives me no confidence. One is 750 GB Western Digital Caviar Black & the other is 2 TB Samsung F4 Spinpoint. Might need to flash the BIOS for high drive capacity, or locate/install some driver ... but, the 750 GB drive at least should have detected. Weird. I really hate Compaq; all sorts of proprietary junk that never works properly when you need to upgrade or tweak it.
As far as the radiator anecdote goes, mostly I posted that for the lulz. It was a weird little hardware hack using junk that had been stuffed into a cabinet. The radiator was the source of warmth in the room, so turning it off or turning it down would have made the room quite cold ... keep in mind several other factors: Latvia, mid-winter, old Soviet steam radiator system (once it's on, it is ON like it's incubating dragon's eggs), single-pane windows that didn't shut entirely, nice "breeze" whistling in off of several hundred hectares of ice covering the nearby Daugava river ...
My solution kept me from getting cooked sterile and still circulated the heat to keep the rest of the room at a tolerable temperature for everyone. Even our Russian programmer was impressed by my jurry-rigged, American solution. Told me the room seemed more comfortable than he could remember it for several winters.
AnimeJanai:
Check out the kingwin drive bays:
3.5" drive version: http://www.amazon.com/Kingwin-KF-2000-BK-SATA-Swap-Mobile/dp/B000SOSI1Q
2.5 / 3.5 combo: http://www.amazon.com/Kingwin-2-5-Inch-3-5-Inch-Tray-Less-KF-252-BK/dp/B004LXJXSW
There's a model that lets you put four 2.5 inch SaTa drives into one 5.25 inch bay.
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