I got a decent Sony VAIO with A/V equipment and I'm going to transform the thing into a Media Center type PC. Generic little comp, 2.4ghz Intel P4, 512mb PC-2700.
Thing is, I donated it's 80GB PATA drive to my 'rents. Redoing their onboard RAID-1 array wasn't worth the time (after the mobo went awry), so now I've gotten a pair of identical Seagate SATA 80GB drives.
I figured I'll throw them into this new box using a PCI card and run in RAID-0. Maybe I won't, considering the PCI bus will give me very little for bandwidth. Either way, I need a way to pop some SATA drives into this computer.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16816132006
I found that, looks meh, but it would get the job done. You know, now that I think about it - nix the RAID-0. I'd need a good deal of video storage, so I'll run 'em separate.
Suggestions on cheap SATA cards or IDE->SATA doohickeys?