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| From: | Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-user@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Good fast IDE hard drive but cheap and BIG. | ||
| Date: | Fri, 25 Sep 2009 05:09:33 | ||
| Message-Id: | 4ABC5087.50604@gmail.com | ||
| In Reply to: | Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Good fast IDE hard drive but cheap and BIG. by kashani |
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| 1 | kashani wrote: |
| 2 | > Dale wrote: |
| 3 | >> Hi, |
| 4 | >> |
| 5 | >> I recently got DSL and youtube is growing on me. LOL I been trying to |
| 6 | >> find a really good hard drive that is around 400 to 500Gb and pretty |
| 7 | >> fast. It has to be a IDE drive, you know, the big wide cables. I don't |
| 8 | >> have SATA on this rig. |
| 9 | >> |
| 10 | >> I have a Maxtor that I like and is pretty fast but it appears they are a |
| 11 | >> little hard to find nowadays. In matter of importance: size, price, |
| 12 | >> speed. Newegg is great but will consider others as well. |
| 13 | >> |
| 14 | >> Thanks for any pointers. Open to ideas. |
| 15 | > |
| 16 | > SATA PCI card should be < $20. I'd then go with a SATA II drive. |
| 17 | > |
| 18 | > kashani |
| 19 | > |
| 20 | > |
| 21 | |
| 22 | OK. I'm looking at these two SATA cards. I'm not sure which one yet. |
| 23 | One has the external connector too. Sort of like that idea. |
| 24 | |
| 25 | http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815102102 |
| 26 | |
| 27 | http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816124003 |
| 28 | |
| 29 | For the hard drive, I'm liking this one: |
| 30 | |
| 31 | http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148395 |
| 32 | |
| 33 | I figure that will last me a little while. I found me a site to |
| 34 | download the Law & Order and NCIS shows now. Oh boy !!!! |
| 35 | |
| 36 | Anyone see anything wrong with that combination? |
| 37 | |
| 38 | Thanks. |
| 39 | |
| 40 | Dale |
| 41 | |
| 42 | :-) :-) |