Re: Harddrive Purchasing

2005-09-21 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, September 22, 2005 2:48 pm, Roger Searle said: > There's always the possibility I'm wrong but I thought that all the > parallel or serial ata drives are compatible. A good place to start for > prices is pricespy... > > http://www.pricespy.co.nz/cat_3.html > > 100 gig is pretty small these

Re: Harddrive Purchasing

2005-09-21 Thread Joshua Collins
On 9/22/05, Craig FALCONER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: seagate barraccuda is sex-on-toast.  maxtor isn't.   Do you need maximum space or maximum speed?    space I should think. What spec machine is the drive going into?    Oh dear :S Don't quote me on any of this but I believe the current setup

Re: Harddrive Purchasing

2005-09-21 Thread Roger Searle
There's always the possibility I'm wrong but I thought that all the parallel or serial ata drives are compatible. A good place to start for prices is pricespy... http://www.pricespy.co.nz/cat_3.html 100 gig is pretty small these days. Depending on how much you want to spend you could go a

Harddrive Purchasing

2005-09-21 Thread Joshua Collins
I seem to vaguely remember this coming up recently, but I don't recall the results.   What is the advice on a harddrive that is linux compatible. One that's about 100Gb would be nice :) Is there anything I should be wary of should a shop assistant try to swindle me. I'm not a huge hardware purchase