I always pay the few extra quid and get the 8Mb cache drives ... don't know why, I doubt that much I do is actually affected by the extra cache, but it makes me feel better!
I just bought at 200Gb Maxtor (same spec as yours but with the 8Mb cache) which my local shop sells for 78 quid including vat. The 120s they sell at £49 (2Mb) or £55 (8Mb).
The rest sounds pretty wonderful to me!
I know it is going to sound pretty strange, but while trying to find a spare video card today, I discovered I had a spare Athlon 1800 machine (entire machine, including hard drive and CD rom, but no real OS) sitting on my landing that I had entirely forgotten I owned! Sheesh ... and I was looking for the video card as I'd just bought another Athlon machine (pre-owned) for 150 quid (no hard drive, one old CD writer, no OS, but 1Gig of RDRAM and onboard sound, network etc. on an Intel D850MV motherboard in a nice case with an extra fan taking up one of the rear slots) ... the plan is that one machine is going to be my Cubase machine and one is probably going to be the Linux machine (and I *will* be picking your brains about how to set up a mailserver like the one you showed me the last time I visited!)
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2Mb cache?
Date: 2004-08-31 05:48 pm (UTC)I just bought at 200Gb Maxtor (same spec as yours but with the 8Mb cache) which my local shop sells for 78 quid including vat. The 120s they sell at £49 (2Mb) or £55 (8Mb).
The rest sounds pretty wonderful to me!
I know it is going to sound pretty strange, but while trying to find a spare video card today, I discovered I had a spare Athlon 1800 machine (entire machine, including hard drive and CD rom, but no real OS) sitting on my landing that I had entirely forgotten I owned! Sheesh ... and I was looking for the video card as I'd just bought another Athlon machine (pre-owned) for 150 quid (no hard drive, one old CD writer, no OS, but 1Gig of RDRAM and onboard sound, network etc. on an Intel D850MV motherboard in a nice case with an extra fan taking up one of the rear slots) ... the plan is that one machine is going to be my Cubase machine and one is probably going to be the Linux machine (and I *will* be picking your brains about how to set up a mailserver like the one you showed me the last time I visited!)