[PLUG] Another Seagate drive died

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Wed Jan 31 19:58:05 UTC 2018


On Wed, 31 Jan 2018, John Jason Jordan wrote:

> I started my shopping on Newegg and haven't gotten much further. But I
> note that none of the drives are 3.5" form factor. I can get a ~1TB SSD in
> 2.5", mSATA, M2, or PCIe. I assume there exist hardware adapters to mount
> one of these in a 3.5" bay, but what about the connectors? Will the SATA2
> cables and power connectors in my current desktop fit one one of these
> drives?

John,

   Adapters are widely available; e.g.,

 	2.5 to 3.5 hard drive adapter | eBay

 	Amazon.com: 2.5 to 3.5 hard drive adapter

 	2.5 to 3.5 hard drive adapter - Newegg.com

These from entering '2.5-3.5 hard drive adapters' in the firefox search
widget.

Rich




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