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

[Dale]

Paul Hartman wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> 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.
>>
>
> Honestly, for $50 you can probably buy a new motherboard that has SATA
> built-in. :)
>
> This one is normal PCI and has 4 ports for $10 less cost, using
> SIL3124 chipset which should work fine in Gentoo: N82E16816124028
>
> As far as speed, I think PCI will be the ultimate bottleneck,
> especially if you ever attach more than 1 drive. But it should at
> least not be slower than your IDE, and access times should be nice and
> quick.
>
> For the alternative of cheap SATA-to-IDE adapter I was thinking of
> something like this:
> http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.12537
>
>
>

I looked at the one that is $10.00 cheaper but it only has internal
connectors.  I may have to have a external drive one day soon.  I'm
about full on the 3.5' slots and I hate those little 3.5" to 5 1/4"
adapters.  They always give me grief.

I see what you mean on the little adapter.  Wouldn't be any faster tho
would it?  Wish they had that at newegg too.  I cold order both at the
same time.  o_O  It is CHEAP too. 

Dale

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