Re: OT 1TB pata drives?

2010-08-08 Thread C. Falconer
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)

RE: OT 1TB pata drives?

2010-08-08 Thread Bryce Stenberg
-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

Re: OT 1TB pata drives?

2010-08-07 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
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

OT 1TB pata drives?

2010-08-06 Thread Nick Rout
I looked a month or so and could find local sources of 1 TB pata drives (should have splashed out then). Now the maximum I can find is 500GB. What gives? Can anyone point me to a source (chc preferably, nz otherwise) of 1TB (or bigger) pata drives? Linux connect? mythtv needs more space and the

Re: OT 1TB pata drives?

2010-08-06 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
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

Re: OT 1TB pata drives?

2010-08-06 Thread Nick Rout
On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Volker Kuhlmann list0...@paradise.net.nz 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