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On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Paul Hartman wrote: |
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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 |
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> I looked at the one that is $10.00 cheaper but it only has internal |
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> connectors. I may have to have a external drive one day soon. I'm |
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> about full on the 3.5' slots and I hate those little 3.5" to 5 1/4" |
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> adapters. They always give me grief. |
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> I see what you mean on the little adapter. Wouldn't be any faster tho |
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> would it? Wish they had that at newegg too. I cold order both at the |
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> same time. o_O It is CHEAP too. |
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DealExtreme is in Hong Kong so it usually takes 2 or 3 weeks to get |
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things from there to here (in USA), but the prices are ridiculously |
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low and they have just about everything when it comes to small |
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adapters and USB gizmos. |
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For external drives it might be easier to use USB (assuming you have |
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USB 2.0 on that system). It might even be faster than eSata through a |
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PCI card. I have an external USB hard drive and get consistantly |
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around 35MiB/sec read and write speed... |