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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 thought I would post what I ended up getting. This actually works |
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pretty well. |
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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152100 |
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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815102102 |
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The drive formats out to about 732Gb with resierfs. This is the speed |
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result from hdparm: |
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root@smoker / # hdparm -Tt /dev/sda |
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/dev/sda: |
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Timing cached reads: 860 MB in 2.00 seconds = 429.42 MB/sec |
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Timing buffered disk reads: 246 MB in 3.02 seconds = 81.55 MB/sec |
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root@smoker / # |
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That is with KDE running. It is a little faster in console with no GUI |
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running but its not a lot. It is a good bit faster than my IDE drives |
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tho. Almost double the speed. |
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The reason I picked a somewhat slower card is because someone said PCI |
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would be the bottleneck so I saw no need for a really fast and expensive |
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card. I did get a fast drive since when I build my new rig I can swap |
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it over to it. Oh, the new rig will be a while yet. I ran up on a |
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really nice TV and I spent what I had saved on that. My old TV was |
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about 20 years old. I now have a LG 32" LCD TV that is 1080p and a |
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DirecTv HD box to go with it. I really like watching the history |
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channel when they show the Egyptian tombs and stuff. It's like being |
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there in person almost. |
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Anyway, that is the update. Thanks much for guiding me through the |
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selection process. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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