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On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> kashani wrote: |
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>> Dale wrote: |
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>>> Hi, |
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>>> I recently got DSL and youtube is growing on me. LOL I been trying to |
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>>> find a really good hard drive that is around 400 to 500Gb and pretty |
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>>> fast. It has to be a IDE drive, you know, the big wide cables. I don't |
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>>> have SATA on this rig. |
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>>> I have a Maxtor that I like and is pretty fast but it appears they are a |
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>>> little hard to find nowadays. In matter of importance: size, price, |
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>>> speed. Newegg is great but will consider others as well. |
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>>> Thanks for any pointers. Open to ideas. |
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>> SATA PCI card should be < $20. I'd then go with a SATA II drive. |
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>> kashani |
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> I been looking at these cards on newegg. I haven't had a SATA drive |
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> before and confess I don't know a lot about them. They are faster and |
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> have little bitty cables. I'm looking at this one: |
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> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816124003 |
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> I notice that it has two internal and two external connectors. Can I |
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> assume that the "eSATA" means external or is that something else? |
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> Also while I have the link and you are most likely looking at it, is |
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> this a good fast card? It appears to be a pretty recent revision since |
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> it also says SATA II. |
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Honestly, for $50 you can probably buy a new motherboard that has SATA |
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built-in. :) |
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This one is normal PCI and has 4 ports for $10 less cost, using |
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SIL3124 chipset which should work fine in Gentoo: N82E16816124028 |
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As far as speed, I think PCI will be the ultimate bottleneck, |
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especially if you ever attach more than 1 drive. But it should at |
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least not be slower than your IDE, and access times should be nice and |
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quick. |
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For the alternative of cheap SATA-to-IDE adapter I was thinking of |
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something like this: |
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http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.12537 |