[treebark7182]

I have a MDD dually 1ghz and im lookin for another hardrive.

1. I want to get a ~200gb for my second ATA/100 slot. I have a question. I found a maxtor but they all have ATA/133 is that compatable. Western digital makes what looks like the best lineup but im not sure and they are all ATA/100

2. I'm looking for this hardrive to do one thing. Use it as a data drive and do a fresh install of my os' on my default drive and use it soley to run my os. Anyone else do this and if so any tips on what i should run in each drive? \
/ Thnx all

[awcopus]

Go here:
http://www.hypermicro.com/store/index.htm

Click on "Internal Drives" in column on left.

Select EIDE.

Scroll down to the Western Digital Caviar 200GB drive with 8MB cache.

Place order.

Live dream.

[Spliffdaddy]

Don't worry if the drive has a ATA/133 interface. It'll work fine on any ATA bus - assuming the ATA bus can recognize the full capacity of the drive (yours will). You should be OK with your ATA/100 interface and 200GB drives.

Some ATA/66 interfaces won't recognize disk capacities over 137GB. This won't be a problem for your ATA/100 interface.

It won't be a 'bottleneck', so to speak, if you use a ATA/133 hard disk on a ATA/100 interface. Almost no hard drives can saturate even a lowly ATA/33 bus.

www.newegg.com has the best customer service and their prices are excellent.

You should be able to use pretty much ANY ATA (aka, IDE or EIDE) hard drive on your Mac. The only limitation is the disk size - and that's not a problem either, since your ATA/100 interface will support the largest disks currently available.