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Good IDE Storage Drive?

flibberdipper
By flibberdipper
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I am in need of a new IDE storage drive. My old WD is starting to crap out, and I don't want to lose all of my stuff. I would like at least 250GB, and up to 500GB (since my motherboard has its derp moments). I would look right now, but the school's firewall is being derpy.

 

EDIT: And it will need to work as a slave for a WD1600AAJB or something like that. Some of the drives don't work with my motherboard. One of the old DiamondMax Plus 9's worked with it, I think. Otherwise, I'll need an IDE PCI RAID card. Which I need anyways.

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I have 2 Maxtor 250gb IDE drives which I've used for many years now (almost a decade now) as a sotrage drive (documents, media, and games). I don't know what model exactly but Maxtor is a brand i recommend personally (though i think they got bought)

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@Giddyguy

Maxtor is owned by seagate. They were purchased in 2006.

 

@tmcclelland455

You are pretty much going to be limited to NOS or used drives to get ATA at this point. Do you really need ATA? You could just as easily get a controller card for sata and a brand new hard drive and come out ahead. Examples below.

PCI: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815287013

PCIe: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA1JM0FB8308

HDD: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148840

 

Total comes to about $100 (definitely less) for 1TB of storage and converting your computer to SATA.

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