On Sun, 15 Apr 2001, Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I am planning to buy a new harddisk about 10 - 20 GB. Is there any > recommandations? I am using P3V4X motherboard from ASUS with VIA chipset (I > heard there were some problems with this chipset) Anyway, an ATA66 harddisk > is what I want but I guess ATA100 with ide card is welcome too. thanx > everyone
If you buy one at a store like Best Buy or somewhere like that you'll probably only be able to find ATA 100 these days. As someone else suggested, it's probably worth the extra bucks to buy a 40 GB disk. The price difference just isn't that great. I've bought quite a few harddrives, but the only brand I've had fail (so far) is Seagate. I purchased a 6GB and 8GB and they lasted about two years, then died without any real warning. They were both IDE, and in different systems. Depending on how crucial your system and data are, you might want to look into buying two drives and using software RAID to mirror them, or maybe buy an IDE RAID card. I found an interesting page on IDE RAID here: http://www.research.att.com/~gjm/linux/ide-raid.html The software RAID HOWTO is here: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html Good luck, Zonker -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 43599611 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= "Liberty's too precious a thing to be buried in books... Men should hold it up in front of them every single day of their lives and say: I'm free to think and to speak. My ancestors couldn't, I can, and my children will. Boys ought to grow up remembering that." "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" -- James Stewart
