Paul Hartman wrote: > On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Paul Hartman wrote: >> >>> 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 >>> >>> >>> >>> >> I looked at the one that is $10.00 cheaper but it only has internal >> connectors. I may have to have a external drive one day soon. I'm >> about full on the 3.5' slots and I hate those little 3.5" to 5 1/4" >> adapters. They always give me grief. >> >> I see what you mean on the little adapter. Wouldn't be any faster tho >> would it? Wish they had that at newegg too. I cold order both at the >> same time. o_O It is CHEAP too. >> > > DealExtreme is in Hong Kong so it usually takes 2 or 3 weeks to get > things from there to here (in USA), but the prices are ridiculously > low and they have just about everything when it comes to small > adapters and USB gizmos. > > For external drives it might be easier to use USB (assuming you have > USB 2.0 on that system). It might even be faster than eSata through a > PCI card. I have an external USB hard drive and get consistantly > around 35MiB/sec read and write speed... > > >
USB. There is another idea. Ooops, out of USB plugs too. Crap, I can't put in a drive without buying something to plug it into. LOL I do have USB 2.0 on here. I have to have 2.0 for the printer but my camera has to have 1.0. Weird I know. Dale :-) :-)
