Is the drive inside a standard drive? (As in, does it have an interface card?
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As far as I know, it's a standard external hard drive that connects to your computer via a USB cable. I have it set up with my Mac via Time Machine and it keeps my Mac backed up at all times.
503893
It is a standard drive, not solid state storage. Not sure of interface technology?
1544157
I was never able to even get it to work with a standard PC SATA drive, sorry
751591
No it does not. You mean you don't have a dozen standard USB's laying around? :) Get the drive, it's awesome.
43584
Yes it does, I just installed a 1 TB Seagate HD in it with no issues, it is a SATA drive.
306704
It is Sata II or SATA III compatible. If you do not understand the interface for HDD you probably should not be building a computer or buying components.
1069147
Sorry I don't have an answer for you, the drive is for a Drobo Raid and it's not something that concerned me when I made the purchase. It was however physically an exact match to the Older drive it replaced, I hope that helps.
1214462
The disk drive is Hybrid. Its in the middle of an SS drive and a standard drive. It uses SS memory as cache.
1861521
Yes. OS independent. You will want to format it for the OS you will be using but the drive will accommodate either.
718421
Someone said this is a SATA backplane. It is has nothing to do with SATA, it is not a backplane an has nothing to do with drive connectors.
1809012
No it works with standard drivers that I recall. No specialized ones are needed. Either that or it stores the drives on a small bit of ROM that the PC grabs like a jump drive like they do with printers nowadays.
1773042
No, it is a bare drive. I used a usb2IDE appliance and Clonezilla, a free OpenSource download.
1665200
It's integrated in the drive, it is very short although. Yo need to have your computer literally an inch away.
1891420
The card in the unit determines where it is EITHER USB3.0 OR SATA. It is one or the other, NOT both.
1715323
There is no disk drive inside. It just has a case and three usb outlets.Any 2.5 drive will fit inside. I found it very useful for testing and using hard drives removed from my laptop.
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Yes this is exactly same as a normal drive in terms of function, only difference is the size and type (SSD vs. HDD). I have this in my ASUS G46VW, got Windows 8 installed on it as boot drive and my standard 2.5" drive as media drive.
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I have not had a drive that this unit will not connect to on either SATA or EIDE ports.
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No it is not. The connectors on those drives are different than laptop arrives.