[mythtv-users] OT: 160GB Western Digital, $30 after rebates

Jeff Simpson llcooljeff at gmail.com
Fri Jun 3 20:43:23 UTC 2005


> Great price, but these days you start running into limits on how many
> drives you can put in a system, due to bays, IDE controllers and power.
> (Though you can buy external usb boxes for more than the post-rebate cost
> of this drive.)

I'm one of the lucky few with 4 channels of IDE (up to 8 drives)
supported in linux (it's an older gigabyte board). So the real limit
in my system is power, heat, noise, and space! :-)

 - Jeff


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