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<blockquote data-quote="Geeky1" data-source="post: 485477" data-attributes="member: 34442"><p>The option that dtravis mentioned is the best one, unless you're ok with trying to track down a 120gb or smaller IDE drive</p><p><a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822144174" target="_blank">http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822144174</a> that's the only 120gb desktop drive I could find on Newegg, and it's out of stock. It may have been discontinued... it's getting difficult to find new desktop drives that are that small. Here's an 80GB if you just want to get a working drive in it and don't care about anything else. This particular drive has been around in one form or another since something like 2001 or 2002. It's a proven, reliable drive.</p><p><a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822144122" target="_blank">http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822144122</a></p><p>...and only 80GB.</p><p></p><p>If you need more capacity than that, and/or intend to keep this machine and think you may be upgrading drives in the future, get a Serial ATA PCI card (Sonnet sells several) and any Western Digital, Maxtor, Seagate or Hitachi drive that you like; you're not likely to go wrong with any of them. Just make sure that it's at least a 7200RPM drive (which it should be... I haven't seen 5400rpm desktop drives in a while. If you want the fastest thing going Western Digital offers a 10,000rpm Serial ATA drive) and has at least 8mb of cache. Seagate does have the longest warranty of the bunch, for whatever that's worth.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Geeky1, post: 485477, member: 34442"] The option that dtravis mentioned is the best one, unless you're ok with trying to track down a 120gb or smaller IDE drive [url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822144174[/url] that's the only 120gb desktop drive I could find on Newegg, and it's out of stock. It may have been discontinued... it's getting difficult to find new desktop drives that are that small. Here's an 80GB if you just want to get a working drive in it and don't care about anything else. This particular drive has been around in one form or another since something like 2001 or 2002. It's a proven, reliable drive. [url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822144122[/url] ...and only 80GB. If you need more capacity than that, and/or intend to keep this machine and think you may be upgrading drives in the future, get a Serial ATA PCI card (Sonnet sells several) and any Western Digital, Maxtor, Seagate or Hitachi drive that you like; you're not likely to go wrong with any of them. Just make sure that it's at least a 7200RPM drive (which it should be... I haven't seen 5400rpm desktop drives in a while. If you want the fastest thing going Western Digital offers a 10,000rpm Serial ATA drive) and has at least 8mb of cache. Seagate does have the longest warranty of the bunch, for whatever that's worth. [/QUOTE]
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