[HM] Re: changing iMac hard drive

[David Crandon]

Two best places I've found for seeing good deals on hard drives are:

http://www.dealmac.com

http://www.dealsontheweb.com

David Crandon

"hawkgx at planetkc.com" wrote:
> 
> Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 07:19:13 -0800
> Subject: [HM] Re: changing iMac hard drive
> From: T. Brown / groucho <btgroucho at earthlink.net>
> 
> I'm with Duane, buy a larger HD than 20 gigs. I bought an 80 gig
> Western Digital drive this week for under $80. You will get more
> storage space, as well as speed because you won't have fragmentation. I
> would get a 7200 RPM drive instead of the 5400 RPM that came with your
> iMac. Western Digital has a Special Edition drive with an 8 meg cache,
> really is a quick drive. I highly recommend those, and I hated WD for
> some many years.
> 
> Hope this helps a bit,
> groucho
> 
> Groucho,
> Where did you get your WD drive for that price range?  I'm looking to swap
> out a hard drive inside my slot-loading iMac DV SE (500mhz) and want to
> find a reliable, 80GB, 7200 drive for the best price I can find.  So far,
> the lowest I've seen today is for $85 after rebate (it was either a Maxtor
> or WD... can't remember which).  If you could post an answer or email
> off-list, I'd appreciate it.
> Thanks,
> Hawk
> 
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