[mitchell_pgh]

well, the time has come to put my 6400 out to the pasture to make room for my iMac to take it's spot, and a new Duel 533 system (I have a nice all dusted ready for delivery) to take the iMac's spot. I'm now wondering what type of hard drive I should get to make my 6400 a perfect MP3 jukebox. I need something like 60gigs minimum... I think the 6400 has a IDE interface, but I'm not a hardware person...

Could someone help?
I need a price and a location to buy the new drive...

[John Strung]

Just go to your nearest computer warehouse type store and buy a 60 or 80 gig IDE hard drive. The ones for PC's work fine in a 6400. I have had good luck with Maxtor's in particular. Try to get a 7200 rpm drive rather than a 5400.

When you install it, make sure your partition it. Make a small 1 or 2 gig or so partition for the system software and maybe a 500 meg partition for your Virtual memory file. The computer will run much better if it does not have to search a 60 gig drive for system software.

[festoons]

I wouldn't recommend getting a 7200rpm for a 6400. It does have IDE by the way. The controller on the mobo of the 6400 is the older ATA/16 protocol so you can't get any faster than 16meg burst transfer speeds. 5400rpms would be just dandy. If you really need the space get the Maxtor 80GB. You should only need a 500meg partition for the startup volume. If you have 128 ram in it you should be fine and not need virtual memory.

[waffffffle]

I've put an 20GB IDE drive in my 6400. I bought one for $100 from comp usa a year ago. I think its a 5400rpm. It's not difficult, but just so you know this means replacing your existing hard drive and not adding a second one. You'll have to figure out a way to get all of your data from one hard drive to the other. I did it by copying everything to my iMac over my network and then copying everything back.