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Postby David on Sun Oct 12, 2003 4:02 pm

Maxtor 160GB 8MB catch $149.94 - $20 instant - $30 MIR = $99.94 (504516)
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Postby aviationwiz on Sun Oct 12, 2003 5:16 pm

Nice deal, too bad it's not SATA.
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Postby wicked1 on Sun Oct 12, 2003 5:40 pm

This is just what the old XBOX needs.Thanks!
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Postby aviationwiz on Sun Oct 12, 2003 6:49 pm

wicked1 wrote:This is just what the old XBOX needs.Thanks!



For Xbox I would recomend an old 5400 RPM HDD, that would be because of heat purposes, using a 7200 RPM drive creates too much heat for a small thing like xbox.
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Postby wicked1 on Mon Oct 13, 2003 12:17 am

I have put 7200 rpm drives in about 25 XBOX's now without a hitch.The CPU never gets about 55 no matter how long they are played or you compile Linux software.
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Postby UALOneKPlus on Mon Oct 13, 2003 12:53 am

aviationwiz wrote:Nice deal, too bad it's not SATA.


Do you have a SATA enabled motherboard? From what I read SATA doesn't really give a good performance edge due to the PCI bus limitation, except in RAID 0 configuration...
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Postby aviationwiz on Mon Oct 13, 2003 7:29 am

UALOneKPlus wrote:
aviationwiz wrote:Nice deal, too bad it's not SATA.


Do you have a SATA enabled motherboard? From what I read SATA doesn't really give a good performance edge due to the PCI bus limitation, except in RAID 0 configuration...


Yup,

Asus P4S8X. All my drives are SATA. I have one Western Digital Raptor (36GB) and a Maxtor DiamondMaxPlus 9 (120GB)

The space is enough for what I do, and the speed is great, especially on the Raptor, which is where I keep Windows along with all the programs I have. I keep stuff like music (8.5GB) on the 120GB. Right now, I have about 12GB left on the Raptor.
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