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Hardrive and noise
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Jul 21, 2003, 05:33 PM
 
Hello folks,
I have a dual 1ghz MDD and my 80 gig hardrive is almost to its brim with stuff that i cant part with. I need to get either a 120 or 180 gig hardrive to complement my current one. Has to be internal and has to be a good one for a good price. Any suggestions??? Also any suggestions on getting it quieter?? I missed out on the whole replacement fan deal.
thanx a bunch
Trev
     
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Jul 21, 2003, 10:05 PM
 
For a cheap HD go to www.dealmac.com for good deals.

I got a 200 GIG Westerndigital HD for only $115 from Dell.com a week ago. Any IDE hard drive will work for you, and installing a HD is very easy.
     
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Jul 21, 2003, 11:02 PM
 
Hi,

I seriously suggest that you should look at either Segate Barracuda or Samsung hard drives since both are designed to be as quiet as possible whilst retaining as much performance as possible. Western Digital hard drives are know to be fast hard drives but at the same time very noisey as well.

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Jul 22, 2003, 04:28 AM
 
Whatever you get, I'd opt for a drive with an 8MB cache...
     
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Jul 22, 2003, 09:33 AM
 
http://shop1.outpost.com/product/3483523

found this one is this one completely compatable and can my powermac get to the 200 gig mark w/out using RAID???
     
   
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