On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Dale <rdalek1...@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
