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I was too curious and broke the seal. Will actually try to use it, probably for the rare full /home backup every 2 or 3 years, since it needs external power and is probably not that fast. I'd date this artifact late 2000s? It might have USB 2, making it fast enough.

Weird though that I'd buy this and forget about it forever. It definitely cost enough to matter to me back then.

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[–] toddestan@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I remember seeing IDE drives all the way up to 1TB. Anything over 80GB was pretty uncommon though.

I had some 320GB IDE drives in my nForce2 chipset Socket A system, which thanks to the southbridge used on the motherboard, I had USB2.0 but no SATA support.

[–] SupraMario@lemmy.world 1 points 12 minutes ago

You could have gotten a sata enclosure and had faster speeds over USB 2.0 lol but if I remember correctly, back then the first released sata enclosures were like $100.