[CUBE] Hard Drive Upgrades

[Philip J. Robar]

On Wednesday, August 13, 2003, at 09:50  AM, Rod Clifford wrote:

> Looking through OWC hard drive selection, Western Digital & IBM offer 
> similar units-
> 7200RPM, 8.9 sec seek, 2 mb cache.
>
> Which one seemed to operate silently and not generate enough heat to 
> require a fan?
> I remember a post which had the comment about more heat as a result of 
> the higher RPM (??)


http://www.storagereview.com

See the Leader Board section for their current recommendations. They 
address both noise and heat issues in their reviews. Most modern fast 
hard drives run within a couple of degrees of each other.

Phil