WD800 connector

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A friend gave me a Western Digital WD800 drive.

It has a strange connector on the end. In place of the normal 40 pin
connector, or 80 wire 40-pin connector, that other drives have, and
that the WD website indicates that it uses.

Instead, it has one or maybe 2 connectors for closely spaced pins S1
to S7 and another with P1 to P15. !!

Do they sell cables or adapter so that I can use this drive?

Why is this conector different from all other connectors?

(It still has the 4-wire power connector and 4 places for jumpers,
SSC, PW2, OPT1, and OPT2.)



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[Folkert Rienstra]

Rotflol.

 

[Andy]

It's an SATA drive.

 

[mm]

It's an SATA drive.

Thanks. It's interesting that I managed to go to the WD800 on the WD
webpage for it that google pointed to , and not see anything about
SATA drives.

But they do have a page that explains the difference.

http://www.westerndigital.com/en/products/resources/DriveCompatibilityguide.asp

Since I am using win98SE, I can't use this yet. Maybe in a year or so
I'll assemble a win2000 box.

The SATA drive is 3 times the price of EIDE at 80gigs. It must be
good.


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[Peter]

Thanks. It's interesting that I managed to go to the WD800 on the WD

webpage for it that google pointed to , and not see anything about
SATA drives.

http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=1327&p_created=1109874364

 

[chrisv]

The SATA drive is 3 times the price of EIDE at 80gigs. It must be
good.

SATA drives are generally no more expensive than "EIDE" drives.

 

[mm]

SATA drives are generally no more expensive than "EIDE" drives.

Well, I found an online ad for a refurbished SATA WD800 for 164
dollars, and I think I saw an ad for a new non-SATA WD800 for about 60
dollars.

Did I get one of the prices wrong?

(BTW that is part of what stumped me, that they use the same first 5
characterss of the name for both. Mine has a suffix in small print
WD800JD, but I didn't think something that important (in that they're
not interchangeable) would be in the suffix.

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[Andy]

About $44 for either:
<http://www.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php/masterid=2002172/search=WD800>

 

[mm]

About $44 for either:
<http://www.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php/masterid=2002172/search=WD800>

wow. I see 2 possibilities. That site that wants 160 dollars is
mucho overcharging.

Or, it's a webpage from years ago. I haven't knowingly found any
sales sites like that, but once when I was looking for a particular
hamfest, I got many hits 6 of which were the announcment page, and all
gave a different day of the month. Only by looking at the calendar
and seeing which of those dates was a Sunday that year was I able to
tell which was that year's announcment.

No one puts dates on webpages, except news sources on some occasions,
and I was surprised to find out that even in the source code there is
no date. I thought the software would put it in automatcially.

And people don't include dates within the emails they write. They
rely entirely on the dates in the headers, even though many times
their text is copied and pasted with no headers. Often with no
attributionn lines, which could contain dates and times, but again,
many people don't set it up that way.

Still, I'm not convinced that I was looking at an old webpage.



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http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=1327&p_created=1109874364

Thanks. The jumper stuff explains a lot.



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[Folkert Rienstra]

wow. I see 2 possibilities. That site that wants 160 dollars is
mucho overcharging.

Or, it's a webpage from years ago. I haven't knowingly found any
sales sites like that, but once when I was looking for a particular
hamfest, I got many hits 6 of which were the announcment page, and all
gave a different day of the month. Only by looking at the calendar
and seeing which of those dates was a Sunday that year was I able to
tell which was that year's announcment.

No one puts dates on webpages, except news sources on some occasions,
and I was surprised to find out that even in the source code there is
no date. I thought the software would put it in automatcially.

And people don't include dates within the emails they write. They
rely entirely on the dates in the headers, even though many times
their text is copied and pasted with no headers. Often with no
attributionn lines, which could contain dates and times, but again,
many people don't set it up that way.

Still, I'm not convinced that I was looking at an old webpage.

Uhuh. And the reason you must rely on only 2 results exactly, is?

 

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Uhuh. And the reason you must rely on only 2 results exactly, is?

To annoy you.
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[Shelly K.]

wow. I see 2 possibilities. That site that wants 160 dollars is
mucho overcharging.

Or, it's a webpage from years ago. I haven't knowingly found any
sales sites like that, but once when I was looking for a particular
hamfest, I got many hits 6 of which were the announcment page, and all
gave a different day of the month. Only by looking at the calendar
and seeing which of those dates was a Sunday that year was I able to
tell which was that year's announcment.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822144122 IDE $43.99


http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822135106 SATA $43.99