Re: sata disks

[Frederick Gray <fegray@berkeley.edu>]

> 
> I am planning to purchase some disks to transfer your
> skimmed 1TB ? to Illinois as soon as possible. I saw
> Western Digital Caviar SE WD3200JD 320GB Serial ATA 7200RPM Hard
> Drive w/8MB Buffer ***Free 2nd Day*** for $155.
> 
> I remember you recommended SATA drives. Is that a good
> choice?

Hi, Peter,

Assuming that you have access to a computer with an SATA interface (most new
motherboards have them built in these days) then this sounds like a good 
choice.  The controllers tend to be more efficient and the cabling is
less likely to be flaky than in an IDE system; fewer conductors generally 
means fewer problems.  The optimal $/GB seems to be at $102 for 250 GB these 
days, but you're only paying about 20% above that.

Did you receive a response from Valeri/Kumar about the network transfer?

Thanks,

-- Fred

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