[CUBE] Adding a hard drive

[Thomas Karlsen]

Go for a Seagate Barracude IV or V. The Barracuda IV 40GB 7200 rpm is  
the best one when it comes to silentness (21dB). It's more quite then  
the fanless Cube itself ;-)


> My original Cube drive died several weeks ago and replaced it a 60GB
> 7200 RPM IBM Deskstar (or some name like it). It was ridiculously cheap
> and is extremely fast and quiet. Seagate Barracudas seem to get the
> best marks for being quiet but none of my local dealers stocked them.
> Though not authored for the Mac environment, here is a review from a
> site that is an excellent resource for computer upgrades with silence
> in mind:
> http://www.silentpcreview.com/ 
> modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=2 
> 9&page=1
> Good luck.
>
>> On Friday, November 29, 2002, at 03:48 PM, Oliver Köll wrote:
>>
>>> First post to this list - hi everybody!
>>>
>>> I'm thinking of adding a new hard drive to my stock cube, mostly
>>> because the original one feels really slooow to me (20 GB Western
>>> Digital, i think).
>>>
>>> What do you think would be the best option for a replacement with
>>> regard to speed improvements? (should be silent, too :-)
>>>
>>> And: Do you think adding a faster hard drive requires putting a fan
>>> into my Cube, or is heat not an issue with hard drives?
>>>
>>> Cheers and thanks in advance
>
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