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 1Mypbc-0007MK-Ni for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:24:40 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2FE58E07CF; Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:24:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from qw-out-1920.google.com (qw-out-1920.google.com [74.125.92.150]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D54CE07CF for ; Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:24:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qw-out-1920.google.com with SMTP id 4so555637qwk.10 for ; Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:24:38 -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=Mp9u+yLpJua8nv1mdLDf3VEr+19NssmqPu3NEad4FKc=; b=XSeECP1KZh1prNm1XAyr6besiLh0S1jHB0i42fFRs6nvTOYnYn1Dagco/sdgL4auNq Ps226vNIy86dshwtpGv+veYP6CA2oSC38I/pdxYmhjKEmnHa1G9M9X5AgAeO6HNhhc6P 7pTT3ZhQlA8hZO/bMdRUPj69R6shsuSMqNWDc= 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=nWDdcKaZwWJMGtLG4+g0Qnq7xOnsTu+mK79lfVIC1Sf5TkzIqF49Y0eTdoK+0Kh/28 Smg+9T6KNQBT49toO3aR5lwGnix0FNdI8AjAS8WYPxZWJEzmu1hyu1ZREMrtUOntOFuA SWYBW1nO1D5jI29HjZazAh2dERutys/zakLYY= Received: by 10.224.26.92 with SMTP id d28mr1122138qac.301.1255710278729; Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:24:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.1? (adsl-222-125-42.jan.bellsouth.net [68.222.125.42]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 7sm2967129qwf.28.2009.10.16.09.24.33 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:24:34 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4AD89E40.4010400@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:24:32 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20091007 SeaMonkey/1.1.18 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: dddf4c2a-27c3-4a0b-b3c6-027e0cc0377a X-Archives-Hash: 27f84784217e291be8816325aecf0ce6 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 thought I would post what I ended up getting. This actually works pretty well. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152100 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815102102 The drive formats out to about 732Gb with resierfs. This is the speed result from hdparm: root@smoker / # hdparm -Tt /dev/sda /dev/sda: Timing cached reads: 860 MB in 2.00 seconds = 429.42 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 246 MB in 3.02 seconds = 81.55 MB/sec root@smoker / # That is with KDE running. It is a little faster in console with no GUI running but its not a lot. It is a good bit faster than my IDE drives tho. Almost double the speed. The reason I picked a somewhat slower card is because someone said PCI would be the bottleneck so I saw no need for a really fast and expensive card. I did get a fast drive since when I build my new rig I can swap it over to it. Oh, the new rig will be a while yet. I ran up on a really nice TV and I spent what I had saved on that. My old TV was about 20 years old. I now have a LG 32" LCD TV that is 1080p and a DirecTv HD box to go with it. I really like watching the history channel when they show the Egyptian tombs and stuff. It's like being there in person almost. Anyway, that is the update. Thanks much for guiding me through the selection process. Dale :-) :-)