[CUBE] Recommendations for hard disk

[Todd Masco]

One great resource from looking for drives is 
http://www.storagereview.com/ ... an even better one for a quick look, 
except that it's starting to get a long in the tooth at 6 months old, 
is this review article:

	http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/article/1540/

It rates a number of drives by performance, noise, and heat.  Choose 
accordingly, by what factors are most important to you - but make sure 
that you pay attention to heat for your cube.  Then you can use those 
as benchmarks to compare with any newer individual drives that might 
interest you from the first link.

Personally, I chose the Seagate ST380021A  (aka 80 GB Baracuda IV) for 
my cubes and the Western Digital drives for my "Wind Tunnel" Powermac 
G4.

And while you're at it, I highly recommend getting an external firewire 
drive - even a very slow one - for weekly backups.  I personally use 3, 
one for scratch, one for "live" backup, and another for off-site 
backup, but your own data backup needs might not be as rigorous.