On Samstag, 28. Juni 2008, Florian Philipp wrote: > Hi list! > > I've got a little question. Here I've got a PC with two 40GB hard > disks, a CD-burner and a DVD-burner, all PATA. Now I'm running out of > disk space and I'm thinking about ways to increase it: > > 1. I could replace the older 40GB disk with a new model but I'd hate to > trash it because it's working alright. > > 2. I could replace the really old and rather useless CD-burner with a > disk. However, that would mean I'd have to attach the DVD-burner and > one of the disks to the same controller. Now I'm asking myself (and > you ;) ) how that would affect performance.
wikipedia can answer that. But why not a cheap sata controler and a nice big sata disk? They are cheaper now than PATA disks. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
