From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MqtQO-00073R-Dy for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:52:16 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0C29FE08EF; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:51:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-fx0-f220.google.com (mail-fx0-f220.google.com [209.85.220.220]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC6BCE08EF for ; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:51:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm20 with SMTP id 20so1819622fxm.14 for ; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:51:33 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=YnB67GpfSZlAyoBtkWAPKHqWmZWbXooGAWNr2eQLPs0=; b=oQXbMH9C8RDV2PonuNoOgXjt0q7m5fVNoDcVG8pQwZQfoalwMxg69YdASJKnppTiJp P42tJjeIr2e97z1FMPjZMS0eMsT9QngmFJl+/IhuxHoVenr/Tz+I9y2upkW4CyicLf+/ tsVc4J/N7w7VpCc+yq2TjYLu5HInhConsoo/A= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=igBw8eXnlxj1aR9EFHqXHu/3zukaczHRA/N1BK7NaTvsWNVwlgMGutRW+8F0E37ONf HSLORkGZ1E9CvQE5bvuDVX5WgpbGIuF3LLmWkXE55UQWdFyY5erpRTZmT84jNL887565 qpfq6VK54mNx7ZrMnPYaDXfxOCKVboUr6JxnU= Received: by 10.86.211.38 with SMTP id j38mr301107fgg.26.1253818293149; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:51:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from energy.localnet (energy.heim10.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.197.94]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id d6sm436233fga.26.2009.09.24.11.51.32 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:51:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Good fast IDE hard drive but cheap and BIG. Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:51:29 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.1 (Linux/2.6.31r4; KDE/4.3.1; x86_64; ; ) References: <4ABAE27E.8070400@gmail.com> <4ABAFFCF.1060204@badapple.net> <4ABBBD7A.1050004@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4ABBBD7A.1050004@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200909242051.29285.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 336940d7-8e59-43ce-b9b8-c18301de93f7 X-Archives-Hash: b60654dd39ca65dc1ce3d60f11821b5a On Donnerstag 24 September 2009, Dale 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. > > Thanks for the help. > > Dale > > :-) :-) > it is a pci-x card and expensive. Try to get a nice pci or pcie card. remember: pci-x is NOT pci-express