On Donnerstag 24 September 2009, Dale 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. > > Thanks for the help. > > Dale > > :-) :-) >
it is a pci-x card and expensive. Try to get a nice pci or pcie card. remember: pci-x is NOT pci-express
