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On Donnerstag 24 September 2009, Dale 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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> >> |
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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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> Thanks for the help. |
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> Dale |
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> :-) :-) |
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it is a pci-x card and expensive. Try to get a nice pci or pcie card. |
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remember: pci-x is NOT pci-express |
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