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From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>
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 00:02:39 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <58965d8a0909232202j3746e74cq5e4e5eeb9b6cb03a@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4ABAE27E.8070400@gmail.com>

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 10:07 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> 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.



  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-24  5:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-24  3:07 [gentoo-user] [OT] Good fast IDE hard drive but cheap and BIG Dale
2009-09-24  5:02 ` Paul Hartman [this message]
2009-09-24  6:21   ` Dale
2009-09-24  5:12 ` kashani
2009-09-24  6:22   ` Dale
2009-09-24 18:42   ` Dale
2009-09-24 18:51     ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-09-24 19:02       ` Dale
2009-09-24 19:02     ` Paul Hartman
2009-09-24 19:14       ` Dale
2009-09-24 19:21         ` Paul Hartman
2009-09-24 19:29           ` Dale
2009-09-24 20:51             ` kashani
2009-09-24 20:54               ` Dale
2009-09-24 23:47             ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2009-09-25  0:59               ` Dale
2009-09-25  1:09                 ` Paul Hartman
2009-09-25  1:21                   ` Dale
2009-09-25  1:35                     ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-09-25  3:23                       ` Dale
2009-09-25  9:01                         ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-09-25  9:22                           ` Dale
2009-09-25  1:17                 ` kashani
2009-09-25  1:26                   ` Dale
2009-09-25  7:57                     ` Neil Bothwick
2009-09-25  8:08                       ` Dale
2009-09-25  1:14               ` Keith Dart
2009-09-24 19:04     ` [gentoo-user] " kashani
2009-09-24 19:29       ` Dale
2009-09-24 19:37         ` Paul Hartman
2009-09-24 19:44           ` James Ausmus
2009-09-24 20:22             ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2009-09-24 20:48               ` James Ausmus
2009-09-25  5:09   ` [gentoo-user] " Dale
2009-10-16 16:24   ` Dale

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