[LAU] serial ata

[aljordan at maine.rr.com]

Hi Dan,

I have had good luck with the Western Digital SE 16 500GB drives.  I
think the model number is WD5000AAKS or something similar.  They are
very quiet for a large drive, and I haven't had any issues.  

I have used them on two computers.  The first motherboard was an Abit
AV8 with a VIA K8T800 Pro/VT8237 chipset (now discontinued).  The
current board is an Asus P5W DH Deluxe with an Intel P975X and ICH7R
chipsets.  This board also has an additional JMicron raid controller but
I haven't touched it.

Alan

----- Original Message -----
From: Dan Easley <daneasley at gmail.com>
Date: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 9:27 pm
Subject: [LAU] serial ata
To: LAU <linux-audio-user at lists.linuxaudio.org>

> A while back I bought a SiI3112 PCI SATA card and hooked four 300gig
> hard drives to it - worked fine.  Later on, my roommate bought some
> 400gig hard drives, and we had major trouble with them - the drives
> would appear locked up a few gigs into a big file transfer.  We ended
> up using them in a windows box, where they worked fine.
> 
> Now I'm in the market for a brand new computer, that I'd like to throw
> some 500gig sata drives in.  Has anyone had any experience using
> really big drives like that with onboard sata controllers?  If so,
> what brand/chipset drive/motherboards are you using?  (feel free to
> reply privately if you think this will degenerate into advertisements)
> 
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