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On Sunday 24 September 2006 12:21, David Johnson wrote: > I did the same a while ago and went for SATA II (SATA/300). The drives > aren't any more expensive than IDE and they're about twice as fast. But > beware of Maxtor drives as I've had nothing but problems with them > (failures, incompatibility with RAID controller, etc). Don't bother with > SATA I (SATA/150) as these drives aren't any faster than IDE. > > Most SATA controllers seem to be supported in Linux now and it all seems > quite stable, so there's nothing to worry about there. > Thanks David, My current 3 year old P4 - 3 Ghz box has a couple of Maxtor IDE 133 disks which haven't been a problem, but I will heed your warning if I decide not to re-use them and go for the SATA option. It seems that various manufacturers have periodic problems. I had a few failures with new IBM Deskstar and Western Digital Caviar 20/40 Gb disks a couple of years ago, yet the 8 year old Seagate disks grind on happily in my IPCop boxes :) -- W. Devon ----------- A GNU/Linux user -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html