[11011001]

So I got 8 gigs left on my 60 gig stock drive in my 867 Mhz G4. I figure at the rate I am going I have 2 weeks left before I run out of space, so I need another high capacity internal drive. 100 gig drive is pretty much the minumum. I have looked around, and there only seems to be fricken firewire drives everywhere I look. Apple's store doesn't carry any internal drives, what's up with that?

So anyhoo, Maxtor makes em... internal drives that is.

I remember a while back either G4ME or Cipher were talking about a really quiet fast drive, for cubes or something. One of them has one in their tower. So what was the name of that drive.

So SCSI? Is that any good, what is it? How does ATA compare? Am I using the right terms. I have only shopped for RAM, audio cards, and video cards so know basically nothing about hardrives, other than fast is good

I can spend about 400 american on this. Would like 7200 to 10000 RPM.

Ooo, and just for the sake of drueling, I would not mind hearing about crazy fast, massive capacity drives. You know like 15 k RPM, 133 mb/s transfer, 16 mb buffers ect.

[Evangellydonut]

Depends on what you need it for...
If you need raw speed, nothing's faster than the WD1000JB aka the WD1000 special. It's 100GB, and it's the fastest drive on the market.
If you are going for pure storage space, Maxtors are the way to go, and slightly cheaper than WD ones. I've had the WD1000BB for 6 months now with 24 hour/day continual access w/o problems (ahm, IBM)
For $400 u can get almost 2 JBs...

SCSI has no real advantage over IDE unless you are willing to pay for 10,000 RPM or 15,000 RPM, or in a RAID/Fibre setup.

[dav]

i bought a 120GB HD for my cube a month or two ago, Western Digital, 7200rpm - think i only paid $225. no problems.

[vmpaul]

Originally posted by dav:
<STRONG>i bought a 120GB HD for my cube a month or two ago, Western Digital, 7200rpm - think i only paid $225. no problems.</STRONG>

I added that drive to my system as well. Works fine but it was my 3rd drive so i had to add a Sonnet PCI card because I already had 2 devices on my motherboard controller chip.

The only problem I had was that I could not make it my primary drive. The research I did got to be too technical but it involved my B&W G3 system and large (over 100GB) drives.

[robby818]

I added a western digital 120 GB 7200 rpm w. 8mb buffer to my 733 quicksilver. It's positioned as the slave to the original 40 GB IBM drive that came factory installed. So far so good. I use the 120 gb drive for downloading video from a canon zr20. works great. i think for stuff like downloading video the 8 mb buffer is a big advantage over the 2 mb that comes on most drives. The drive was only about $190 from Dell's accesories store.

[nana2]

Originally posted by 11011001:
<STRONG>So SCSI? Is that any good, what is it? How does ATA compare? Am I using the right terms. I have only shopped for RAM, audio cards, and video cards so know basically nothing about hardrives, other than fast is good

I can spend about 400 american on this. Would like 7200 to 10000 RPM.

Ooo, and just for the sake of drueling, I would not mind hearing about crazy fast, massive capacity drives. You know like 15 k RPM, 133 mb/s transfer, 16 mb buffers ect.</STRONG>

The only way you will get 10K and 15K rpm drives is by going SCSI. It's not a cheap option, and not the best if you need massive capacity. An LSI ultra160 controller card + an 18GB Seagate X15-36LP (15K drive) from Hypermicro.com will set you back around $145+$215=$360.

[11011001]

Originally posted by dav:
<STRONG>i bought a 120GB HD for my cube a month or two ago, Western Digital, 7200rpm - think i only paid $225. no problems.</STRONG>

Yup, that is the one I am getting, mostly cus it is the one that my local mac comp store has, and cus it is fast, and big. The special edition one with the 8 mb buffer.

They are ripping me off though, 679 CDN funds, so like 350, or 400 American. But then they had to get it shipped here, across the border and stuff... I don't mind, I like these guys.

Might pick up a 80 gig baracuda for the iMac as well.

[suprz]

i believe that cipher uses a 7200rpm seagate barracuda for his sawtooth....but i dont remember the size (GB's)

[11011001]

I think that would be either the 80 gig or 60 gig he uses. Ya, I checked them out. Was gonna get it, but I decided to go for the Western Digital one. So 120 gigs...

partioned it into a 8 gig partition, and a 112 gig partition. The 8 gig partition is for my virtual memory swap for OS X. The new drive with the OS X vm swap on it, makes things noticeably faster. I put the swap on the 8 gig partitition, not only for the speed, but because it won't get fragmented amoung a bazillion files.

So, I filled up my 112 gig partition with like 30 gigs an hour after I got it (went to a friends house, and copied all his mp3s), I now have about 86 gigs left.

Ya, I love this Western Digital Drive, it rocks!! I paid too much for it, but I can work the money back to where it was again.Thx for the advice everyone!

[Buckaroo]

www.newegg.com sells the Western Digital 120 gig 7200 rpm 8 megs for approx. $200.