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.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESATA
esata is different sort of connection, but a number of new external
drives are starting to support it.
This looks to be your best choice.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815102102&cm_re=pci_sata_II-_-15-102-102-_-Product
I assume that any motherboard that does not support SATA also does not
support PCI-E or PCI-X, but you should make sure that you have a free
slot and verify that slot type before buying something.
kashani
