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<div>Yes, Michelle, you understand correctly. All of your points
below. Option C is probably about $20 cheaper than buying it all
pre-sssembled. Check the prices on newegg.com. The price
you show below seems kind of high for 120 GB. For that amount of
money, you should be getting more capacity.</div>
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<div>Also, 120 GB is about as much as you could install internally to
be recognized, but you could install much more in an external FW
enclosure and have it all recognized. Has to do with the
limitations of the interior ATA bus. --Steve</div>
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<div>At 9:38 PM -0500 5/30/07, Michelle wrote:</div>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Am I understanding you correctly that I
could feasibly purchase something like the:</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font color="#000000">** 120GB Seagate
Barracuda 7200.9 7200rpm 8.5ms 8MB Cache Ultra ATA/10
** </font></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font color="#000000">from a website like
OWC for around $75.</font></blockquote>
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color="#000000"><br></font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font color="#000000">With this
"drive", I could either:</font></blockquote>
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color="#000000"><br></font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font color="#000000">A) install it
INTO my Sawtooth in the "second" drive available spot? (I
didn't know there was such a spot/slot...)</font></blockquote>
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color="#000000"><br></font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font color="#000000">B) replace the
current (27GB?) hard drive with this new, bigger drive of 120
GB</font></blockquote>
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color="#000000"><br></font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font color="#000000">C) put this new
drive into a firewire enclosure (for about $50 more?), and use it as
an "external" storage/drive</font></blockquote>
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color="#000000"><br></font></blockquote>
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color="#000000"><br></font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font color="#000000">IF I chose to do
Option C, why would that (or<b> would</b> that) be faster than just
buying an external firewire hard drive in the first
place?</font></blockquote>
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