WD. SATA and Mac support

[kwfl]

i am trying to buy a WD hard drive when i come across this in their web page

http://www.wdc.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=297

mac osx does not support SATA?
is that true

also something weired, is that they dont tell u which port your hard drive is gonna be, firewire, usb or what?

i am sure i am missing something. anyone can tell me?

i have a 10 month old iMac 20''
it has FW 400 but is it GIGa bit ethernet, or just the normal one

i am trying to buy this
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=311
i know it says sata where i am not so sure about it
which ports it has?

what qare the differences between the one in the above link and this
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=297

thanks

 

[itickings]

i am trying to buy a WD hard drive when i come across this in their web page

http://www.wdc.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=297

mac osx does not support SATA?
is that true

Should the link be to the WD Interface Guide instead?

In any case, OS X most definitively support Serial ATA, all new Macs have been shipping with SATA drives for a while.

also something weired, is that they dont tell u which port your hard drive is gonna be, firewire, usb or what?

i am sure i am missing something. anyone can tell me?

They DO tell you exactly what port/ports the drive supports. If it says SATA, it is SATA. If it says USB, it is USB and so on.

i have a 10 month old iMac 20''
it has FW 400 but is it GIGa bit ethernet, or just the normal one

Gigabit ethernet.

i am trying to buy this
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=311
i know it says sata where i am not so sure about it
which ports it has?

If it says SATA, then it is SATA. It is an internal drive. To use that drive in an iMac, you have to open the computer (and most certainly void any warranty and risk damaging the computer) and replace the existing drive.

If you are looking for an external WD drive, go to External Storage instead of Desktop Drives.

what qare the differences between the one in the above link and this
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=297

This one is old parallel ATA, instead of serial ATA. Different technology. Still an internal drive, though.

thanks

You are welcome.

 

[kwfl]

i dont know what to say here
many many thanks.

i thought by being a desktop drive as what are actually "external drives but powered separately, i.e. non-portable)

once u said, u gonna have to break open my iMac and dump it in, i got the full image.

i should be actually looking into the external storage section, where no SATA and EIDE stuff to worry about


thanks again