I'm a little tight right now and have noticed that my hard drive in one of my servers is dying. The problem is, that hard drive is ATA 100 and the motherboard doesn't support serial ATA. I don't need a more powerful server, but the Serial ATA push does pose a problem. I bit the bullet and bought 2 ATA 100 250 GB drives on EBay. I figure I can keep one sealed for when the other drive wears out. How long do I have to stock up on ATA 100 drives and as needed 80 wire cable? Is there a cheap way to refurbish working drives that are starting to have trouble? What thoughts can people offer on adding PCI cards that support SATA to older PIII systems?
What I'm looking at is sinking maybe $100/month into ATA 100 hard drives to stock up for when the drives I am using now wear out. I figure if I keep a drive in the sealed anti static bag that it shouldn't wear out. Should I stock up on ATA 100 hard drives for when my current drives wear out, or is there a Serial ATA PCI card I should get that works well under Linux? Do I have to get new power supplies if I purchase PCI SATA cards? This problem goes beyond just my servers. I have a mixed environment of computers where many of them use PATA hard drives exclusively. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
