Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Good fast IDE hard drive but cheap and BIG.

[Dale]

Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> On Donnerstag 24 September 2009, Dale wrote:
>
>> kashani wrote:
>>
>>> Dale wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I recently got DSL and youtube is growing on me.  LOL  I been trying to
>>>> find a really good hard drive that is around 400 to 500Gb and pretty
>>>> fast.  It has to be a IDE drive, you know, the big wide cables.  I don't
>>>> have SATA on this rig.
>>>>
>>>> I have a Maxtor that I like and is pretty fast but it appears they are a
>>>> little hard to find nowadays.  In matter of importance:  size, price,
>>>> speed.  Newegg is great but will consider others as well.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for any pointers.  Open to ideas.
>>>>
>>> SATA PCI card should be < $20. I'd then go with a SATA II drive.
>>>
>>> kashani
>>>
>> I been looking at these cards on newegg.  I haven't had a SATA drive
>> before and confess I don't know a lot about them.  They are faster and
>> have little bitty cables.  I'm looking at this one:
>>
>> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816124003
>>
>> I notice that it has two internal and two external connectors.  Can I
>> assume that the "eSATA" means external or is that something else?
>>
>> Also while I have the link and you are most likely looking at it, is
>> this a good fast card?  It appears to be a pretty recent revision since
>> it also says SATA II.
>>
>> Thanks for the help.
>>
>> Dale
>>
>> :-)  :-)
>>
>>
>
> it is a pci-x card and expensive. Try to get a nice pci or pcie card.
>
> remember: pci-x is NOT pci-express
>
>
>

This is a older system.  It has those wide connectors.  It's a Abit nf7
V 2.0 mobo.  No "S" or "M" in the model.  This link has a picture of my
mobo.

http://www.cyfinity.com/tag/watts/

That is not my system, just a pic of the same mobo.  I found it with
google and just picked it at random.

Thanks.

Dale

:-)  :-)