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 1MqtaC-00082d-JM for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:02:24 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 012AEE08BF; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:02:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yx0-f189.google.com (mail-yx0-f189.google.com [209.85.210.189]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C821FE08BF for ; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:02:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yxe27 with SMTP id 27so2338180yxe.10 for ; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:02:22 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=Zsv0jHfXSRPk5qDqpxlW0RGzB5D2IMSWyA9n5w7CTp8=; b=FWVVy3RHxTj4KNcPcy9C1wxgJQ54cwNepGBS50zmlUWroA+1mscmLMEADvQMbkh7HR 90TjIcwIfNs20t3jV2cqUmPsKU/Agre0woBCuJcwAXXLzVVV6RQSZua2qCq8BFv4RN4n rybB3Zo5qYfUbqXe9+28nN5bivhPTmtZJ25Z8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=sQphyx26WLJRSYWcAg7gqJH5QKOWAsu0hUqfM+mqQC4Galz2bjTGTnLDYWq00P4oO5 lGLM3RvZfc372I2gV1IFkDjg//s5w3saDGjKGlpqnv8tgfl/tGeau1zc/jsTKm7w5IRb JBTioT8mW3o/2WxjA66PjXCbM9BRo2Q6dwO+I= 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 Sender: paul.hartman@gmail.com Received: by 10.150.104.2 with SMTP id b2mr580869ybc.19.1253818942405; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:02:22 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4ABBBD7A.1050004@gmail.com> References: <4ABAE27E.8070400@gmail.com> <4ABAFFCF.1060204@badapple.net> <4ABBBD7A.1050004@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:02:22 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: c52b3c1e000c8db7 Message-ID: <58965d8a0909241202j21b66a0co6f488245700daf99@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Good fast IDE hard drive but cheap and BIG. From: Paul Hartman To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: 7c6cd489-3084-4458-90a1-0d18357f8ab3 X-Archives-Hash: 1ac1bf828bf9adb8783d3fb2e5503d70 On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Dale 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