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 1MqhiN-0004bX-2O for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 06:22:03 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0714BE0948; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 06:22:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f202.google.com (mail-yw0-f202.google.com [209.85.211.202]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAD58E0948 for ; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 06:22:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywh40 with SMTP id 40so1584792ywh.32 for ; Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:22:01 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=YCZM09q5/vqZ7th+zwbT8lnmtN4MTkgnAI7QhgFS6TA=; b=LcImXV7oP6Y6fk9uLtkfRpDDVt/qa4SCeMcXbJVFwgYLAec7yiTO2Fcdc5O2DzSSWO VVtaaiFmewwNKLx3rq0u+TrX1272Gz2x0sf6qnRsEZvTIuKIUL1OcwPDgmKG+zHbsYoX Bi8/uUODIMbHScUaUlNzxu8UPq1814CxZSgx8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=KuR0pa6CNxFAX1nwa+LvoiJN5JZDm1auak5KvX9/Yqa5MtCnJ72DIiR1L+UWc12vZl s3a6krdnqaIpQq7U6dt2CvRgRBRAkuif+flFruylavLxM/sMcHMmL+b7EKe0oJ9Z+FId QgXuUzs3xe2Lq9UnAskqXpn8msFJUfY/eHnvo= Received: by 10.90.255.1 with SMTP id c1mr1842469agi.115.1253773321577; Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:22:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.1? (adsl-147-230-180.jan.bellsouth.net [72.147.230.180]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 32sm2419007aga.70.2009.09.23.23.22.00 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:22:00 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4ABB1006.1090109@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 01:21:58 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.22) Gecko/20090905 SeaMonkey/1.1.17 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Good fast IDE hard drive but cheap and BIG. References: <4ABAE27E.8070400@gmail.com> <58965d8a0909232202j3746e74cq5e4e5eeb9b6cb03a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <58965d8a0909232202j3746e74cq5e4e5eeb9b6cb03a@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 17cf5e6b-253d-43b8-b7bf-e5d2e45707c9 X-Archives-Hash: 8487c852ff3e62a09199e6a834d8a735 Paul Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 10:07 PM, 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. >> > > You can get a SATA-to-IDE adapter for a few dollars. That should > significantly open up your buying options, since nearly everything is > SATA now. > > > There's a idea. Last time I looked they were pretty pricey. I could then use the new drive in the new rig I am saving up to build. Thanks. Dale :-) :-)