New HDD For Linux Install

fairyliquidizer · 12-11-2003, 03:47 AM

I'm going to buy either a:

Maxtor PATA/IDE

or

Maxor SATA drive

...now the last time I installed LINUX it was possible to get it to work with SATA but it wasn't that easy and I certainly had problems getting the best performance out of it.

However the SATA may be more "future-proofed" (ha ha ha!)

So which would you get? The drive is going to be 50% shared data and 50% Linux native.

Thanks,
Fairy

hw-tph · 12-11-2003, 05:42 AM

I suggest you:

a) don't get a Maxtor. They seem to be having serious quality problems, both with traditional ATA disks and SATA ones. Buy Seagate or Hitachi instead.

b) don't get a SATA drive. The drivers for SATA controllers in Linux are not very mature and often the disks perform much worse than a traditional (parallell) ATA drives. As for being "future-proofed" - I don't see anyone just dropping parallell ATA support any time soon. If you want performance and reliability, go SCSI instead.

Håkan

fairyliquidizer · 12-11-2003, 05:54 PM

I have a PATA Maxtor Diamondplus 9 at the moment and it is very good. No problems with it. Not so much as a lost allocation unit!

Fairy