You can get SATA cards for plugging into your PCI slots, although I'd be surprised if you really couldn't get an IDE drive (scan.co.uk go up to 500 Gig Western Digital drives for 60 quid, plus shipping).
I moved all my video and mp3's onto external drives a while ago (a 500 Gig and 320 gig drive respectively). There's no real performance requirement on those, and the setup was perfectly adequate. It broke sometime after I upgraded again: the 500 Gig drive failed, because I moved it (so internal drives are more reliable, simply because they're less likely to be moved).
I'm now running all my media off a NAS drive (which may be overkill for you), but the 100 meg ethernet (with contention!) is still enough. It's a bit slow when I want to reindex all the files.
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Date: 2009-05-27 08:42 am (UTC)I moved all my video and mp3's onto external drives a while ago (a 500 Gig and 320 gig drive respectively). There's no real performance requirement on those, and the setup was perfectly adequate. It broke sometime after I upgraded again: the 500 Gig drive failed, because I moved it (so internal drives are more reliable, simply because they're less likely to be moved).
I'm now running all my media off a NAS drive (which may be overkill for you), but the 100 meg ethernet (with contention!) is still enough. It's a bit slow when I want to reindex all the files.