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Slot loading HDD recommendations please
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I'm looking to upgrade my slot loading iMac from 40GB to 120GB.
Anybody have any recommendations on what's good and what to stay away from?
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AIM: bmichel5581
MacBook 2.2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
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160GB
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Seagate seem to be popular and have a good repuation. I've never personally had a problem with Maxtor drives however where I work we've had lots of failures of 40GB models fitted to the Dells we have - Dell do replace them but their system seems to send out 1 engineer per drive.....that's another story
So now that Seagate have bought out Maxtor it may seem really confusing....
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Anybody heard anything about Western Digital's 120GB HDD (8MB buffer) one?
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AIM: bmichel5581
MacBook 2.2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
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160GB
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Seagate drives: 5 year warranty. Other drives: 1 or 3 year warranty. Which do you think is more likely to be more reliable? I go with Seagate based on this alone, since drives are otherwise quite similar performance-wise (cache size is essentially irrelevant, by the way).
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Originally Posted by gumby5647
Anybody heard anything about Western Digital's 120GB HDD (8MB buffer) one?
I have that drive in my iMac DV. It's nice and fast, but the machine will not sleep in OS 9 or Panther. The drives continuously spins up an down during sleep and will not stop. I haven't had Tiger on that machine but I would assume it's the same deal. I would stay away from that drive.
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