[CUBE] New Hard Drive & Cooling Fan

William Dawdy tucsonmac at cox.net
Sun Jan 18 20:34:35 PST 2004


Joel
Thank you, sounds like good advise. I'll go the 120GB and no cooling 
fan.
William
On Sunday, January 18, 2004, at 09:02  PM, Joel Pelletier wrote:

> Re: New Hard Drive & Cooling Fan
>
> The 7200 speed Barracuda IV is a great drive, and the QUIETEST that I 
> have used. Don't waste your time with an 80GB - put a 120GB in now. 
> It's as high as the machine will go. If you plan on many LARGE files 
> (like video), get the 8MB cache - if not, get the 2MB (it's cooler, 
> and more faster with smaller, everyday files). Either way, there is NO 
> reason to add a fan if that's all you are changing. Bets tip for 
> formatting is to format OUTSIDE of the Cube (in an external case) 
> using OSX, then put it in and install the OS.
>
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