Hard drive experts..help

Go with the Western Digital with the 8MB cache. (if they make it in that size)

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are they speediest than IBM 120GXP?

The recent reliability record of IBM drives tells me to advise you to go for a WD. I'm not sure how their 120GXPs are, but I'd avoid them for a little while.

Rob
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i wont go with ibm never becuase of their bad reputation in 75 60 series drives, i do have gxp60 60gb and this is the 5th time the drive crash and die, so i ran dft to fix it.

do not forget, when you WD but 1200JB not 1200BB (JB is 8mb cach while BB is 2mb)

i think all the new bioses work with 120gb, but i think fat32 system is limited to 32gb? so u need to use ntfs if you do not want to partition (i am not so sure about this info).
good luck

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The BIOS doesn't control the size of the partition(s) on the hard drive.

This mainboard supports ATA/100, which means it is subject to the 28-bit addressing limitation, which doesn't recognize hard drives larger than 137GB. If you wish to purchase a hard drive larger than that, you'll need a PCI ATA/133 IDE controller, which has support for 48-bit addressing.

You should find this article informative:

<A HREF="http://www.pcmag.com/article/0,2997,s=1470&a=21195,00.asp" target="_new">Hard Drives Reach the Next Plateau</A>

I have not yet heard of a theoretical limit to the volume size of a partition that can be used with a combination of WinXP and NTFS. Microsoft doesn't list anything on this subject, except for "no limit".

Personally, I'd skip IBM and buy the Western Digital. My reasoning? A history of failures with the IBM drives with the higher density platters over 40GB, starting with the 75GXP series.

Toejam31


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