[mythtv-users] Big quiet drive on the cheap
Boyd II, Willy
wboyd at fulbright.com
Wed Jan 14 09:58:12 EST 2004
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Joseph A. Caputo [mailto:jcaputo1 at comcast.net]
>Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 7:50 AM
>To: Discussion about mythtv
>Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Big quiet drive on the cheap
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>On Tuesday 13 January 2004 17:09, Boyd II, Willy wrote:
>> Has anyone actually picked up one of these in the stores? I went by
>> my local CompUSA last night, and all they had on the shelves was a
>> 160GB, for $99 after rebates. But the website indeed says
>200GB, so I
>> ordered online and selected in-store pickup. Just curious what kind
>> of arguing to expect tonight when I go pick mine up ;-)
>
>I believe the 160GB drive they have on special is the
>Barracuda V drive,
>and (I believe) is Serial ATA only. The 200GB drive is the 7200.7
>drive and is EIDE/ATA 100. Don't get the 160GB drive unless you have
>SATA (and even then, you may have difficulty using it under Linux,
>unless your mobo/BIOS has a 'legacy' mode that can control an SATA
>drive like a regular IDE/ATA drive).
Ahh, should have looked closer at that. My eyes were just scanning, looking
for that magic "200" number.
Anyway, sorry for spreading any accidental mis-information. I went by the
same store last night to pick up my online order, and sure enough they
handed me a 200GB drive. Sweet :-) I was down to like 3 gigs of space on
my test drive... I've got lots of recording time now ;-)
>
>-JAC
>
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