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 1MqtH2-0006MX-4t for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:42:36 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7684BE08C6; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:42:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qy0-f191.google.com (mail-qy0-f191.google.com [209.85.221.191]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B2F0E08C6 for ; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:42:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qyk29 with SMTP id 29so1554431qyk.32 for ; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:42:05 -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=iMpXCX5mHvU1ergvUoJn1Rohis5pD1GFiMTwrvjyeHc=; b=ZWX+iyA+JdW8x8N5hTwIfK6QLq0OMRFuHpE9t1o2fBcaiq8d/N1lw2snDVGK/Beqyj wKRm5k1/ciypS+B2aHCLBK4xOfkfqI7U8vEA6fOFkarakl6M62JH87cxVd4IDYl5/u+i Zk9XlIUV4eyNYlaAd2LST4rJ3vQRloJnM6ZQw= 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=B6CqgwKB0qkhwImbSckQBImsFQlMNcPJaWZVrdnQz9bxxWqqFQWd9y2HfYD6pmZlfw RabldN1fum8V7C4yj3RSSu3mL8A+x8DyDnSPLcOnuQ0N1j0dBQfzgqSuHweO67HLnrLx x4iwM7WoPhEM6KX5jYFUN8XtPKCii39JWgf/o= Received: by 10.224.108.196 with SMTP id g4mr3607803qap.85.1253817725834; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:42:05 -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 5sm10457qwg.43.2009.09.24.11.42.03 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:42:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4ABBBD7A.1050004@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:42:02 -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> <4ABAFFCF.1060204@badapple.net> In-Reply-To: <4ABAFFCF.1060204@badapple.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 3e668764-570f-4716-8c02-5844b1ba2d83 X-Archives-Hash: 3ad997e8d8c1026a744bc58e0a521017 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 :-) :-)