Hard Drive Advice

[alphaparadigm]

Hello,
I am in need of a semi-mass storage hard drive (~100 Gig) and I was wondering what the people who actually know would suggest to me?
Right now I'm looking at the WD Caviar drive. I want reliability (duh) and good old fashioned high transfer rate. Any advice?

 

[jcmkk]

I think that WD has the only 7200RPM 100GB Hds.

 

[jeffrey]

Either a WD 100gb 7,200rpm drive or the WD 120gb 7,200rpm drive would fit the bill.

You might see a higher transfer rate witht the 100gb "special edition" WD dive with 8mb of cache, but you will pay a premium.

 

[alphaparadigm]

One thing I forgot to mention earlier I'm using mac OSX.1

I've been told that the 8mb cache would give me basically no performance increase and is basically a stupid tax.

does anyone have non-WD benchmarks showing otherwise?

 

[AU Tiger]

Look in the Hot Deals forum for my link to Seagate 80GB for $129 after rebate.

 

[smp]

Yeah man.. it might not be 100 gig but the Maxtor D740X drive is nice. I got the 40 gig and it's fast. Check out some reviews.