[CUBE] New HD

[Meirion Roscoe]

The IBM (now morphed with Hitachi Global Storage Technologies)  180 GXP 
is a marginally faster drive.  It is an ATA 6 as opposed to ATA 100 
drive (WD).  However, the cube will not see all the 180 GB.  I think it 
will max out at  approx 130GB (Can't remember the actual figure)  so 
it's a waste of money really.  The 120GB GXP is an ATA100 drive and 
looks very marginally faster (0.1ms seek time !!)then the Western 
Digital.  Below are the tech spec links so you can decide for yourself. 
  For my 2 pence worth - rhe western digital 120 is quiet and quick so I 
am a happy camper.



http://www.hgst.com/hdd/desk/ds180gxp.htm

http://www.westerndigital.com/products/Products.asp?DriveID=38

Cheers

Rossi


On Monday, Mar 24, 2003, at 11:53 Europe/London, Joseph Tang wrote:

> Is the WD faster than the latest IBM 180GXP? Im interested to know 
> cause I
> have to replace the stock hard drive in my G4/733 urgently.  Any 
> advice is
> appreciated.
> TIA.
> jt
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Meirion Roscoe" <roscoe at macunlimited.net>
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> Subject: Re: [CUBE] New HD
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>> Good - Very good!   ;-)
>>
>> On Sunday, Mar 23, 2003, at 22:24 Europe/London, Todd Masco wrote:
>>
>>> rossi wrote:
>>>> I have a Western digital 120GB HD with an 8Mb cache an it really is
>>>> the
>>>> dog's penis in terms of silence and heat output.
>>>
>>> Ummm... is this a good thing or a bad thing?  I really don't know.
>>>
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