Hard Drive Controller Card Recomendations.

Question

I have a Dell XPS Generation 1 I think. I wanted to add a third IDE hard-drive, yet I am not sure what I should purchase. It would be nice if it was compatible with Linux as well. RAID isn't important to me.

JessieLeeHarris · Answer

Any hard drive should work it is just a matter of is there room in the system for the drive.

shesagordie · Answer

Zinsane.

Promise seems to make a good product and is my personal preference for a contoller card, you can visit their website here.

http://www.promise.com/index_eng.asp

Regarding hard drives, Maxtor, Western Digital and Seagate, all make excellent hard drives, personally I try to avoid Hitache "Deathstars". Buy one with 7200rpm and has a 8mb cache, instead of the 2mb, as it should be slightly faster.
One other point, the OEM HD is just the "bare" drive only, the " Boxed Retail Version" has the instructions, the cable and software included and remember to shop around for the best price.

Bev.

Message Edited by shesagordie on 07-14-2004 01:31 PM

Zinsane · Answer

I already picked up a Maxtor 120 gig HD with a 8 meg cache, just needed to find a HD controller card. I look into promise.

Citadel · Answer

I have to agree I have owned 2 promise ide controllers in 2 systems and theyre going strong almost 4 years old.

wconk · Answer

I have also used the Promise cards. Both 66 and 133 models, and both have been flawless. Not so for the other card I tried on one occasion (can't remember the brand), that resulted in a OS reinstall.

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