A 120GB HD will give you about 111GB formated disk-space, a 160GB will give you the full 128GB that the Cube can handle. The 160GB is about 149GB formated, so there is 21GB not used. If you want to use bigger disks there is a utility that you can get from Intech Software Online its: Speed-Tools Utilities that includes -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: ATA6Title.gif Type: image/gif Size: 466 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/pipermail/cube/attachments/20041214/8ec4eee2/ATA6Title-0001.gif -------------- next part -------------- for drives bigger than 128GB. I am contemplating buying Seagates new 400GB HD at "Other World Computing" where You can get this utility for 10$ when buying a HD. Joel 2004-12-14 kl. 20.27 skrev Philip J Robar: > Op 14-dec-04 om 19:55 heeft e.evennett at virgin.net het volgende > geschreven: > >> that's very kind, thank you. do you know the spec i need to work in >> my cube > > As said previously any IDE HD will work, but any space over 128GB will > be ignored by the system. Cube owners tend to buy the Seagate drives > as they are among the quietest and coolest temperature wise while > being fast enough for most needs. > > Phil