On 02/06/2003, Richard wrote: >And I agree with Stephen an IBM Travelstar GNX (5400 rpm) is the only way >to go. The speed difference is huge:-) > >Cheers Richard > When checking on which drive you'll buy, look for the one with the largest cache (8MB or above should be good) - all other things being about equal. From the posts here, it appears that smaller cache limits the apparent speed of the hard drive. You might look at the Toshiba drives, since I think I recall they had one about in the 40GB range with a 16GB cache.
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