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1TB hard drive on PATA machine
Any thoughts?
Existing system is PATA only, PCI & AGP, no PCI-E. PATA drives seem rare and relatively expensive for the amount of storage you get and at maximum seem to be 500GB. If I want to upgrade this machine to 1TB the only feasible way looks like external firewire drive plus firewire card. Perhaps my existing old firewire card will suffice. Alternative would be to upgrade mobo, CPU, memory and graphics - don't really want to do that quite yet. Any thoughts? Pete -- http://www.petezilla.co.uk |
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1TB hard drive on PATA machine
"Peter Chant" wrote:
Any thoughts? Existing system is PATA only, PCI & AGP, no PCI-E. PATA drives seem rare and relatively expensive for the amount of storage you get and at maximum seem to be 500GB. If I want to upgrade this machine to 1TB the only feasible way looks like external firewire drive plus firewire card. Perhaps my existing old firewire card will suffice. Alternative would be to upgrade mobo, CPU, memory and graphics - don't really want to do that quite yet. Any thoughts? Buy two 500GB IDE drives. Or three 320GB IDE drives. Or buy a SATA card and use those drives. Jon |
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1TB hard drive on PATA machine
Jon Danniken wrote:
"Peter Chant" wrote: Any thoughts? Existing system is PATA only, PCI & AGP, no PCI-E. PATA drives seem rare and relatively expensive for the amount of storage you get and at maximum seem to be 500GB. If I want to upgrade this machine to 1TB the only feasible way looks like external firewire drive plus firewire card. Perhaps my existing old firewire card will suffice. Alternative would be to upgrade mobo, CPU, memory and graphics - don't really want to do that quite yet. Any thoughts? Buy two 500GB IDE drives. Or three 320GB IDE drives. Or buy a SATA card and use those drives. I've looked at a couple of large suppliers and they don't seem to stock PCI SATA cards anymore. 500GB PATA disks are within £10 of 1TB SATAs. However, you've triggered a thought. Buy 1TB external to replace existing 2nd backup drive and put that (PATA) disk in the PC. A useful thought. Thanks. Pete -- http://www.petezilla.co.uk |
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1TB hard drive on PATA machine
"Peter Chant" wrote in message ... A useful thought. Thanks. Check this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16816132021 I'm using it in 4 comps to connect my Rosewill external eSATA enclosures: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817173042 http://www.flickr.com/photos/joearno...63100/sizes/l/ |
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1TB hard drive on PATA machine
"Peter Chant" wrote in message ... A useful thought. Thanks. This one also adds an internal SATA port, but only one external eSATA http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16816124013 |
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1TB hard drive on PATA machine
On Sat, 09 May 2009 13:24:18 +0100, Peter Chant
wrote: Existing system is PATA only, PCI & AGP, no PCI-E. PATA drives seem rare and relatively expensive for the amount of storage you get and at maximum seem to be 500GB. If I want to upgrade this machine to 1TB the only feasible way looks like external firewire drive plus firewire card. Perhaps my existing old firewire card will suffice. Alternative would be to upgrade mobo, CPU, memory and graphics - don't really want to do that quite yet. Any thoughts? First of all: what are your objectives ? Add 1 TB to an existing system ? In that case: buy an external drive. Adding internal SATA drives to a system that doesn't support SATA is hardly an upgrade. 80 MB/s+ is a reasonable speed for modern drives. Don't expect any bridged drive to run faster than some 30 MB/s. (I don't mean testbed speed but real speed in a system like yours, the PATA, PCI & AGP only class PCs) -- Kind regards, Gerard Bok |
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1TB hard drive on PATA machine
"Gerard Bok" wrote in message ... Adding internal SATA drives to a system that doesn't support SATA is hardly an upgrade. 80 MB/s+ is a reasonable speed for modern drives. Don't expect any bridged drive to run faster than some 30 MB/s. (I don't mean testbed speed but real speed in a system like yours, the PATA, PCI & AGP only class PCs) BUT - He *will* have SATA/eSATA, and will still have the drives and enclosures whenever he upgrades his system. |
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1TB hard drive on PATA machine
1D10T wrote:
"Peter Chant" wrote in message ... A useful thought. Thanks. This one also adds an internal SATA port, but only one external eSATA http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16816124013 Thanks. UK wise a useful card comes up on amazon: http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B000UDUBP...1&linkCode=asn Bit pricey at £24.28 if the pound had not crashed nearly four times dearer than the ones you suggest. :-( Don't suppose there is anything to stop me looping a cable from the eSATA port back into the machine - apart from ugliness. -- http://www.petezilla.co.uk |
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1TB hard drive on PATA machine
Gerard Bok wrote:
First of all: what are your objectives ? Add 1 TB to an existing system ? In that case: buy an external drive. Just bought a digital SLR. Had it just over a week. Only really seriously used it for three days last weekend. Already have 5GB of new photos, after deleting bad photos. Photo newsgroup advice, save raw, buy lots of disks! Though I use this machine most I do have a faster XP machine for editing if need be, but I store data on linux box. Adding internal SATA drives to a system that doesn't support SATA is hardly an upgrade. 80 MB/s+ is a reasonable speed for modern drives. Don't expect any bridged drive to run faster than some 30 MB/s. (I don't mean testbed speed but real speed in a system like yours, the PATA, PCI & AGP only class PCs) That would be an improvement! -- http://www.petezilla.co.uk |
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1TB hard drive on PATA machine
On Sat, 09 May 2009 17:18:41 +0100, Peter Chant
wrote: Gerard Bok wrote: First of all: what are your objectives ? Add 1 TB to an existing system ? In that case: buy an external drive. Just bought a digital SLR. Had it just over a week. Only really seriously used it for three days last weekend. Already have 5GB of new photos, after deleting bad photos. Photo newsgroup advice, save raw, buy lots of disks! Yes. And the plural form of 'disks was probably intentional :-) External disk tend to have relatively high failing rates. Given their pricetags nowadays you should secure the pictures on more than one drive. And it is wise to select one with a minimum of 2 years warranty. -- Kind regards, Gerard Bok |
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