[G4] Internal Hard Drive over 120 GB?

Tue May 6 05:50:20 PDT 2003

i figured 2x by running XBench and testing the throughput of the hard 
drives, pretty simple ;)

the reason one might go for a 120 GB drive over the 200 GB one is 
that..... it is still $80 cheaper! thats 2 week's worth of fuel in my 
vw golf...

in my own opinion, one reason "free with rebate" has caught on is that 
americans are lazy, and though many will buy the product initially, the 
vast majority wont ever send in the mail in rebate.

sandor

On Tuesday, May 6, 2003, at 01:58  AM, Thubten Kunga wrote:

> I think it depends on what Mac and your overall hardware version. If 
> you're going to add a drive to an ATA 100/133 bus/card, you might as 
> well forget about the $70 120 GB WD SE and go for the $150 200 GB WD 
> SE w/8MB buffer or $228 for the 250 maximum (net 233). Why stop at 120 
> if the bus can see up to 250GB and higher (when they reach market)?
>
> But it's true that the sweet spot on low cost per GB VALUE is 
> currently the 120 WD SE. These puppies are becoming the "20GB drive of 
> 2003" if you know what I mean. So unbelievably inexpensive how can 
> anyone not want to lose smaller drives.
>
> And what's up with the RAM? I got a FREE 256 DDR 2100 stick at Office 
> Max Sunday after rebate. GOD! Meanwhile, the price of 512MB 2100 DDR 
> RAM has dropped from $65 to $42 in the last two weeks. 
> JEEZZZZZZZZZZZZZEE. Pardon my amazement at these price drops. Office 
> Max is "selling" 48x24x48x CD-RW drives for FREE after rebate. When 
> will all these FREE deals end?
>
> I guess this is the upside of the coming depression of 2004. We'll all 
> be so tricked out with all the free and near free stuff on the market 
> this year that there will be nothing left to buy next year (except a 
> new dual 970 PowerMac of course). The the real depression will set in. 
> ; ^ )
>
> WD has a rebate program this month through May 29th that returns to you
> $30 off 80GB
> $80 off 120 GB and 160 GB
> $100 off 180 GB 200 GB and 250 GB drives. Most of them are 7200 RPM 
> SE's with 8MB buffers.
>
> All  the big resellers are offering their own rebates and/or lower 
> prices to maximize sales this month. Circuit city is currently 
> offering the 120 WD SE for $80 after rebates. Office Max offered the 
> same drive for $70 last week.
>
> I just populated a new dual 867 with two 250's on the ATA/100 bus and 
> two 120's on the ATA/66 bus. I'm booting off one of the 120's 20 GB 
> partition and realize very fast performance. No card necessary and 
> almost 700 GB for $686 (including 8.25% sales tax) available for 
> anything I can throw at it for a long time to come.
>
> How do you measure 2x performance Sr Ferenczy? Scratch disks on the 
> ATA/133 yes. But NOT the System performance. That's why I put the 
> 250's on my MDD's 100 bus and use the 66 bus for the system.
>
> I must say that fully tricking out an MDD is a hell of a lot easier 
> than previous Mac models. It is almost effortless. Apple has figured 
> out how to make upgrading any modern Mac brain dead easy.
>
> k
>
> On Monday, May 5, 2003, at 04:24  PM, sr ferenczy wrote:
>
>> i got close to 2x the performance when i moved my 120 GB WD SE (8mb 
>> cache) drive to an ata133 card (acard) i now have a pair of them on 
>> the card, and use them for DV. i believe they can be booted off of 
>> even on the card....
>>
>> in short, yes you will see increased performance booting off of the 
>> WD drive on an ata 133 card.
>>
>> sandor
>>
>> On Monday, May 5, 2003, at 04:03  PM, Glenn Peterson wrote:
>>
>>> Sandor,
>>>
>>> If I purchase an WD 120GB hd with 8MB cache would I see a better 
>>> speed increase from putting this as my boot HD or connecting it via 
>>> a PCI IDE controller?  I am trying to figure out if I need to 
>>> purchase a controller or if I could just configure it as the boot HD 
>>> and see a speed increase.  Thank you.
>>>
>>> Glenn
>
>
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