RE: OT 1TB pata drives?
>-Original Message- >From: Nick Rout [mailto:nick.r...@gmail.com] >I guess my other alternative is to get a pci-e sata card and >sata drives. I've had success with the little sata to pata adapters - small card plugs onto back of a sata drive and then power and ide cable plugs on to other side - a year or so back was around $40. Regards, Bryce Stenberg. DISCLAIMER: If you have received this email in error, please notify us immediately by reply email, facsimile or collect telephone call to +64 3 9641200 and destroy the original. Please refer to full DISCLAIMER at http://www.hrnz.co.nz/eDisclaimer.htm
Re: OT 1TB pata drives?
Nick Rout wrote, On 08/07/2010 10:57 AM: good point, there is nothing over 500G in the ide section. I've just checked with datastor, one of the larger disties in NZ "Just to let you know that all IDE HDD has gone EOLed for our vendors. That is why there is no drive listed under the (pata) category." So, PATA is a dead duck nowdays, just like DDR1 ram. -- Craig Falconer
Re: OT 1TB pata drives?
On Sat 07 Aug 2010 10:57:05 NZST +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > Any particular card you recommend (or that I should avoid). I saw a > via card on trademe and thought it best to avoid that baby! I don't have first-hand experience with pci-e, sorry, but as a rule, for sata cards I would try hard to pick a chipset that supports hotswap properly. By that I don't mean will blow up, none will do that, but will generate proper signals so the kernel can take the drive offline. Just like the USB sticks. Check this: http://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/SATA_hardware_features When it works properly you can just pull the sata data cable off the mobo, and plug it back in 10 seconds later and have your disk back. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
Re: OT 1TB pata drives?
On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > On Fri 06 Aug 2010 18:37:50 NZST +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > >> What gives? Can anyone point me to a source (chc preferably, nz >> otherwise) of 1TB (or bigger) pata drives? > > Maybe they can't satisfy demand and are producing the mainstream items > first? > > Check pricespry, if nothing else they have a good list of suppliers. good point, there is nothing over 500G in the ide section. > >> I guess my other alternative is to get a pci-e sata card and sata drives. > > Which might actually come cheaper anyway, times when PATA and SATA where > the same price are past. And you can reuse the drive when you upgrade > your mythbox. > Any particular card you recommend (or that I should avoid). I saw a via card on trademe and thought it best to avoid that baby! I could then go to 2 more 2G drives then. Must be pci-e. (the pci slots are taken up by tuners). > Volker > > -- > Volker Kuhlmann > http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me. >
Re: OT 1TB pata drives?
On Fri 06 Aug 2010 18:37:50 NZST +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > What gives? Can anyone point me to a source (chc preferably, nz > otherwise) of 1TB (or bigger) pata drives? Maybe they can't satisfy demand and are producing the mainstream items first? Check pricespry, if nothing else they have a good list of suppliers. > I guess my other alternative is to get a pci-e sata card and sata drives. Which might actually come cheaper anyway, times when PATA and SATA where the same price are past. And you can reuse the drive when you upgrade your mythbox. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
