On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Volker Kuhlmann
wrote:
> On Fri 06 Aug 2010 18:37:50 NZST +1200, Nick Rout wrote:
>
>> What gives? Can anyone point me to a source (chc preferably, nz
>> otherwise) of 1TB (or bigger) pata drives?
>
> Maybe they can't satisfy demand and are producing the mainstream items
> first?
>
> Check pricespry, if nothing else they have a good list of suppliers.
good point, there is nothing over 500G in the ide section.
>
>> I guess my other alternative is to get a pci-e sata card and sata drives.
>
> Which might actually come cheaper anyway, times when PATA and SATA where
> the same price are past. And you can reuse the drive when you upgrade
> your mythbox.
>
Any particular card you recommend (or that I should avoid). I saw a
via card on trademe and thought it best to avoid that baby!
I could then go to 2 more 2G drives then.
Must be pci-e. (the pci slots are taken up by tuners).
> Volker
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