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Hard Drive Advice

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alphaparadigm

Junior Member
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?
 
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.
 
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?
 
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.
 
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