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Running ubuntu, she has an Hitachi IDE ATA hard-drive (160GB) and needs
some more space..
In googling:
- SATA disks seem to be larger for the same price than than ATA disks
- SATA disks require
- An appropriate motherboard
- Or an ATA PCI Card (£30 from Maplin, £16 from Dabs, £5 from Amazon)
- Or an SATA to ATA connector
Then I saw this
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Port-Expansion-VIA-VT6421a-chipset/dp/B000S87GG0
4 Port SATA PCI Expansion Card &IDE VIA VT6421a chipset (3 Sata plus IDE) for £10
Which I figured I could plug into a spare slot, and add the new SATA drive
Question
1/ Has anyone used one of these things before, can anyone see any problems?
2/ Any opinions on having SATA and IDE in one ubuntu machine?
3/ Any opinions on which new hard drive (Samsung Spin Point F1 1TB
Internal SATA Hard Drive for £56 was what I was thinking of, as opposed
to ~ £45 for 500 MB ide)
Many thanks
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