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Tidusblitz111

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Smat Drive Upgrade And H.d.d?
« on: February 25, 2004, 08:18:00 AM »
Ok, I want to get a hard-drive that is lockable and is between 80 and 120 for between 100, and $110 does anyone know of a good place, and exactly what type of hard-drive specs. should I look for... like is it IDE, or ATA\100 or what?! I am really confused about what type to get and how to do the smart drive upgrade, can anyone help me out here? I was looking at the Hitachi in the front page of X-S, is that a good type, is it lockable...someone guide me her...
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the_titans

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Smat Drive Upgrade And H.d.d?
« Reply #1 on: February 25, 2004, 09:07:00 AM »
QUOTE (phunzoid @ Feb 25 2004, 01:52 PM)
....(just remember to get a Y power cable)

... good reminder!  I totally forgot about that one.  biggrin.gif
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oblox

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Smat Drive Upgrade And H.d.d?
« Reply #2 on: February 25, 2004, 11:18:00 AM »
jester.gif

However I did get the one I bought years ago to work when I resoldered the power joints on it and left off the first 10 gigs of a 60 gig drive!
I kept getting bad sectors at about 7 gigs even after I whitespaced the entire drive! and I tried The HDD reviving programs out there too lol

To sum up
Hitachi = shit
Segate = warm & noisey (correct me if I'm wrong but they still don't do a UDMA 133 model - not that it matters)
Maxtor = Dam good I think it's the LO drive models that have 8 meg cache on them
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cap269

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« Reply #3 on: February 25, 2004, 12:48:00 PM »
I got an 80GB Maxtor from OfficeDepot for $49.99 (after rebates).
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