Re: [gentoo-user] 300GB HD

[mark]

300GB as a main hdd isnt a good idea, if the drive dies you lose all the data and your install. pickup a nice 60GB one at wallmart or something and use the 300 for data or make partitions so you wont lose everything, buit the 300GB should work fine in gentoo ----- Original Message ----- From: Samuel Baldwin To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Sent: Monday, May 22, 2006 5:18 PM Subject: [gentoo-user] 300GB HD I'm planning on buying a 300GB HD from maxtor for my next primary HD. It's a "Maxtor DiamondMax 10 300GB 3.5" IDE Ultra ATA133 Hard Drive - OEM" (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822140166) Anyways, I was wondering if I would run into any problems with a 300GB HD, and if this particular one would give me problems. It's a 250V (I think) Power supply and I've already got an Nvidia GeForce 6200 GT in there, so I'm also afraid of it being too much for my computer to handle. It would be my only HD in the machine though. I'm not sure if I should shoot for a smaller drive. I _need_ these 300GB's though. It takes me about 2 days to fill up a 40GB HD with everything, and that's just single-booting. I am content with switching to a smaller drive though if it is impossible to run this certain HD. (Also, if anyone else knows any better deals for a similar/better HD, please, tell me). That's all for now-- Thanks -- Samuel (shardz) 300GB Hardrive from Newegg.com: $115 32" HD LCD TV/PC Monitor: $1, 199.99 2GB of RAM: $160 GNU/Linux Operating System: Priceless