New HD

[RedEclipseTurbo]

I can also recommend the Maxtor 120gb drive (2MB or 8MB cache) as a 
speedy 7200rpm  drive that is very quiet. I benchmarked the drives on 
my G4 quicksilver and the maxtor was around 10% faster than a WD 200GB 
drive I tested.

Chris

On Tuesday, March 25, 2003, at 08:06 AM, Cube List wrote:

> 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