[Gllug] SATA - new drives and old BIOSes not compatible?

[Chris Bell]

On Sat 20 Jan, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> 
> Christopher Mocock wrote:
> > There are other scenarios where replacing disks might be desired. To use
> > an example that applies in my work; if you have a digital video recorder
> > for CCTV, you might want to remove disks containing video for review on
> > a separate viewing station, then replace the removed disk with a fresh
> > one to allow the surveillance recording to continue whilst the review
> > takes place.
> 
> surely, in such a scenario you would use a disk enclosure on an 
> appropriate backplane ( if nothing else, on a hotplug backlpane to 
> ensure the machine does not need to be shutdown, opened, fingered etc ). 
> You will find such caddies are a lot more resilient to moving around 
> than the conventional sata sockets are.
> 
> - KB

   Larger capacity drives as used for long term continuous loop recording
could overheat and fail early if enclosed. Motion sensitive recording does
not always work, I have a camera that points towards my parked car and there
is continuous traffic in the background. (The police have four clear
recordings of someone who lives about 10 houses away vandalising cars, but
the person was never arrested).

-- 
Chris Bell

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