On Mon, 22 May 2006 17:18:04 -0400, Samuel Baldwin wrote: > I'm planning on buying a 300GB HD from maxtor for my next primary HD. > It's a "Maxtor DiamondMax 10 300GB 3.5" IDE Ultra ATA133 Hard Drive - OEM" > Great!
I have a 200G primary and 80G secondary drive. Both IDE. Here are my comments. Well, I would up your PS to at least 400 Watts. Not that the drive would use it, but most newer CPUs need at least 400. While I understand the other poster's concern for the size of the drive, I disagree. It's a reality today, that data is large -- music files, videos, etc. What _I_ do, is have a second drive installed and backup to it compressing the data. With the large music files, I offload periodically to DVD. I backup / once a month, and I back up /home every night incrementally, weekly incrementally, and full monthly. Good disk organization is very important with a large drive. Consider splitting your system and data into partitions. Here's my layout in case you're interested. mars linux # mount /dev/hda5 on / type reiserfs (rw,noatime) /dev/hda6 on /mnt/tmp type reiserfs (rw,noatime) /dev/hda7 on /home type reiserfs (rw,noatime) /dev/hda8 on /mnt/src type reiserfs (rw,noatime) # I keep portage, and other source files on hda8 /dev/hda9 on /mnt/w-dos type reiserfs (rw,noatime,notail) # some old windows and dos and wine stuff here /dev/hda10 on /mnt/download type ext2 (rw,noatime) # misc software downloads and patches (mostly windoze) /dev/hda12 on /mnt/music type ext3 (rw,noatime) # 60GB of various music files (a lot of live recordings # in lossless formats) /dev/hdb5 on /mnt/extra type ext2 (rw,noatime) # hdb is my backup drive for all except the music. #hda11 is not shown, but that's my trusty slackware partition Good luck! -- Peter -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
