Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Good fast IDE hard drive but cheap and BIG.

[kashani]

Dale wrote:
> kashani wrote:
>> Dale wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I recently got DSL and youtube is growing on me.  LOL  I been trying to
>>> find a really good hard drive that is around 400 to 500Gb and pretty
>>> fast.  It has to be a IDE drive, you know, the big wide cables.  I don't
>>> have SATA on this rig.
>>>
>>> I have a Maxtor that I like and is pretty fast but it appears they are a
>>> little hard to find nowadays.  In matter of importance:  size, price,
>>> speed.  Newegg is great but will consider others as well.
>>>
>>> Thanks for any pointers.  Open to ideas.
>> SATA PCI card should be < $20. I'd then go with a SATA II drive.
>>
>> kashani
>>
> I been looking at these cards on newegg.  I haven't had a SATA drive
> before and confess I don't know a lot about them.  They are faster and
> have little bitty cables.  I'm looking at this one:
>
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816124003
>
> I notice that it has two internal and two external connectors.  Can I
> assume that the "eSATA" means external or is that something else?
>
> Also while I have the link and you are most likely looking at it, is
> this a good fast card?  It appears to be a pretty recent revision since
> it also says SATA II.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESATA
	esata is different sort of connection, but a number of new external 
drives are starting to support it.

This looks to be your best choice.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815102102&cm_re=pci_sata_II-_-15-102-102-_-Product

I assume that any motherboard that does not support SATA also does not 
support PCI-E or PCI-X, but you should make sure that you have a free 
slot and verify that slot type before buying something.

kashani