Here we’ll go over how to connect, configure and format a SATA I / II hard drive on Linux.  The intent for this drive ultimately was to share the drive through SAMBA between our home PC’s and to hold home movies from the Sony HDR-SR7 camcorder I have.  Ultimately, I will be using this drive [...]

There are plenty of ways to share resources and files between two or more computers.  You could do things like:

Email yourself an attachment.
Use FTP between the two PC’s.
Use SSH between the two computers.
Use sneaker-net: copy the files to Flash Disk, DVD, CD, (gulp) floppy etc. and walk over to the other computer then load [...]

Especially true with dual boot systems, sharing files between two different operating systems on a single PC can become a time consuming task.  One thing many new users do when they install a Linux on a different partition of the same machine, is to try to connect to the other operating systems and files [...]