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From: kashani <kashani-list@××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Good fast IDE hard drive but cheap and BIG.
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 05:12:51
Message-Id: 4ABAFFCF.1060204@badapple.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] [OT] Good fast IDE hard drive but cheap and BIG. by Dale
1 Dale wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 > I recently got DSL and youtube is growing on me. LOL I been trying to
5 > find a really good hard drive that is around 400 to 500Gb and pretty
6 > fast. It has to be a IDE drive, you know, the big wide cables. I don't
7 > have SATA on this rig.
8 >
9 > I have a Maxtor that I like and is pretty fast but it appears they are a
10 > little hard to find nowadays. In matter of importance: size, price,
11 > speed. Newegg is great but will consider others as well.
12 >
13 > Thanks for any pointers. Open to ideas.
14
15 SATA PCI card should be < $20. I'd then go with a SATA II drive.
16
17 kashani

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