Paul Hartman wrote: > On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Dale <[email protected]> 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 :-) :-)
