Talk:External hard disk drive
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[edit] Correction Made to the Introduction
- In the intro, IDE stands for Integrated Drive Electronics which is an interface, not for Integrated Development Environment which is a software for writing software. --YoRio (talk) 15:52, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Merge Discussion
- Absolutely not. These are completely different ideas. An external hard drive typically refers to just a single drive while a disk enclosure can contain many drives (I've seen as many as 15 but there are probably some that hold more). --Pboyd04 21:52, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
- Personally, I think this is being looked at backwards. USB_enclosure and External hard drive should have been merged into the now deleted enclosure. If I have time over the next couple of days, I'll take a stab at doing just that. External hard-drives, disk enclosures, and USB enclosures all refer to the same thing, but only the terms Disk Enclosure or External Disk Enclosure are inclusive enough to cover their use w/optical drives.
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- On a related note, will also redirect USB CDROM, USB DVD-ROM, USB DVD, USB HDD, USB Hard Drive, USB DVD Burner, USB CD Burner, and External CDROM, External DVD-ROM, External DVD, External HDD, External Hard Drive, External DVD Burner, External CD Burner there.
- MrZaiustalk 17:19, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
Still nothin' here that isn't covered there, 'cept for one image. Merged that in and redirected - WP:BOLD and all that. MrZaiustalk 17:23, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
I agree with earlier statements that this should definitely not have been merged. Instead, the article should simply have been further developed. A disk enclosure is part of an external hard drive; they are definitely not synonymous. HoCkEy PUCK 18:35, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
- If there is no objection, I'm going to restart this article (and fix the relevant redircts to point to it), covering the fact that a disk enclosure is a part of an external hard disk. huji—TALK 13:33, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Factual problem
The article claims that "By 1980, internal drives became the system of choice for computers running Windows." That doesn't make any sense, because the Windows operating system wasn't around in 1980. This needs to be fixed. —Lowellian (reply) 01:20, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
