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Old 09 November 2004, 12:53 AM
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can anyone tell me whats the largest internal IDE hdd available in the market?
Old 09 November 2004, 08:24 AM
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I know you can get IDE & Serial ATA drives at 250GB... Pretty sure this is the largest at the moment....
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Maxtor do a 300GB IDE.
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2.5 Terrabyte 3D - available now for under £12K was at Cebit show

Oh and 300gb are only £124 with 16mb cache on overclockers just now.
Old 09 November 2004, 09:12 AM
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Also IDE 400gb hitachi vancouver 3

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=79445

and deskstar 400gb

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=74112
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is

ATA Ultra 133/ ATA-100 the same as IDE
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IDE means - Integrated Drive Electronics and ATA means Advanced Technology Attachment and are just branding conventions, all ATA drives will riun on Enhanded IDE interfaces with up to 36 inches long cables.
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What on earth are you gonna stick on a 400 GB drive ?
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UBBER ****

/edit sorry, been playing CS Source too long
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lol the only reason you need 400GB is for ****

(400 DVD quality Xvids anyone )
Old 09 November 2004, 10:29 PM
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Try video capture and edditing. That will eat hdd space for breakfast, lunch, dinner, later evening snack and midnight feast...
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Recently bought a 300GB disk for video storage (in car footage from events). Takes up a MASSIVE amount of space by the time its captured, processed and rendered to DVD format.
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lies I tell you!

It's for ****.

Admit it

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time for NAS then.....
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Originally Posted by lightning101
IDE means - Integrated Drive Electronics and ATA means Advanced Technology Attachment and are just branding conventions, all ATA drives will riun on Enhanded IDE interfaces with up to 36 inches long cables.
just means higher tech?
whats the diff between the 100 and the 133
ps i hope that means run and not ruin

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Old 10 November 2004, 12:03 AM
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Originally Posted by BlkKnight
lies I tell you!

It's for ****.

Admit it

don't be silly (got a 200gb for that ojk)
if you wanna know what i really want it for check my last 2 threads here
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