[CUBE] upgrade

[Hal]

Chris,

Welcome to the party. Most of this information is available on the FAQ 
on either cubeowner.com or cube-zone.com.

The Cube takes standard PC100 ram, available at most online merchants. 
PC133 will also work, and is usually around the same price. You won't 
see any improvement in using the faster ram, as the bus speed on the 
Cube is set at 100mHz. Your Cube has 3 ram slots, each can hold 512MB, 
so the max is 1.5GB.

As far as hard drives go, you'll get recommendations for lots of 
drives. Seagate Barracuda drives (IV and V, I think),  and some others 
have fluid filled bearings, and are almost silent. I have a Western 
Digital Caviar with an 8MB cache that I really like. It's almost silent 
and really fast. You can add up to a 120GB drive. The drive controller 
in he Cub won't see space on a single drive beyond 137GB, so there's no 
point in getting a drive that's larger.

Hope that helped.

cheers,
-Hal
On Saturday, February 1, 2003, at 04:38 PM, Christopher Hack wrote:

> dear cube list. After months of scouring ebay, I have finally got the 
> cube I
> have long dreamed off. Please forgive me for asking a question which 
> has no
> doubt been asked and answered a thousand times. But anyway, can 
> someone tell
> me what kind of memory chips i need to upgrade the ram, and how much 
> ram i
> can squeeze into the cube. Also, can anyone recommend the quietest hard
> drives for a simialr upgrade. I have a 450mhz cube which i assume is
> standards. thanks in advance.
>
> chris
>
>
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