Re: sell a whole NAS or strip it and sell the HDDs only on eBay?

On 23/03/2025 14:36, Theo wrote:

 Are you sure those are PATA (IDE) - 40 or 44 pin ribbon cable connector?
 From what I can find the largest PATA manufactured was 750GB.
 It's always possible to put a PATA->SATA converter in front of a SATA drive,
but that doesn't make it natively PATA.  There were some drives which came
from the manufacturer with such a converter.
 Theo

Don't get old, your memory starts playing tricks :-(
I pulled the NAS out of the techno-junk store. There are 2x 2TB drives. Originally I set it up as a 4GB logical drive. Then realised I should have it in mirrored mode to protect against a drive failure. That's where the 4GB idea comes from.
So I pulled a drive, you can hot swap them, so just a lever to release and then they slide out. And hey where's PATA connector? Boy is my memory failing. The drives are 2x WD 2.0TB WD20EARS Caviar Green which are, of course, SATA drives with 64MB cache.
Put it down to getting older. But now I cannot remember what the gizmo was that had big PATA drives in it I was playing with before COVID lockdowns. And they were not as big as I remember them either.