[CUBE] Hard Drive Upgrades

[Hal]

I've had a Western Digital 100GB drive (7200rpm, 8MB cache) in my Cube 
for over a year with no ill effects. I only needed to add a fan when I 
installed a GF3 video card.

-Hal

On Wednesday, August 13, 2003, at 10:50 AM, Rod Clifford wrote:

> I know this subject has been flogged many times but.....
>
> Looking through OWC hard drive selection, Western Digital & IBM offer 
> similar units-
> 7200RPM, 8.9 sec seek, 2 mb cache.
>
> Which one seemed to operate silently and not generate enough heat to 
> require a fan?
> I remember a post which had the comment about more heat as a result of 
> the higher RPM (??)