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@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 9:27 pm Subject: [LAU] serial ata To: LAU <linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > 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) > > -- > daneasley@xxxxxxxxx > dan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx dan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://towndowner.com http://burntpossum.com > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-user > _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-user
