Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Good fast IDE hard drive but cheap and BIG.

[Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> 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.

Honestly, for $50 you can probably buy a new motherboard that has SATA
built-in. :)

This one is normal PCI and has 4 ports for $10 less cost, using
SIL3124 chipset which should work fine in Gentoo: N82E16816124028

As far as speed, I think PCI will be the ultimate bottleneck,
especially if you ever attach more than 1 drive. But it should at
least not be slower than your IDE, and access times should be nice and
quick.

For the alternative of cheap SATA-to-IDE adapter I was thinking of
something like this:
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.12537