These things are 2.5″ and are for laptops with SATA. Though you can buy adapters/kits to have them mounted inside a desktop. Still too expensive for using as a permanent backup solution. I mainly need them for compiling operating systems quickly.. For folks that do a lot of pro-video, imaging, it also helps for working on media… I wouldn’t use it to permanently save data though.That’s what a Raid 5 disk or cloud storage is for.
Power-wise…Should consume less power…no spinning parts no motor. I’m using a quad core mac mini for all my development, so having two ssd in a stripe raid would be nice…[/quote]
Ok, for a non-geek trying to understand geeky stuff, they need some power, right? And the original power connection is way more than they need, so do they have a built in step down transfomer so they don’t get fried? Don’t need it for some reason?
