Hard Drive Recommendations

Its time for me to pick up a new harddrive .. internal ATA ... I'm looking for tips,pro's and cons ... I have a QS 867 running 9.2 Thanks The Maze

Western Digital with the 8mb cashe. Kick ass speed , no problems so far. I have 2 internal and 3 more in a firewire dock. I perfer the 60 gig partitioned into 6 10gig partitions

Western Digital with the 8mb cashe. Kick ass speed , no problems so far. I have 2 internal and 3 more in a firewire dock. I perfer the 60 gig partitioned into 6 10gig partitions

Maxtor ULTRA ATA133, with 8Mb cache. I didn't go with Western Digital because it is ATA100. I have two of these, one for my Mac and one for my PC, and I love them. 733 Quicksilver Mac 1152 MB RAM OS X.2.2.4 OS 9.2.2 Maxtor 10 Gig 7200 RPM Hard Drive Maxtor 40 Gig 7200 RPM Hard Drive Maxtor 40 Gig Ultra ATA133, 8 MB Cache 7200 RPM Hard Drive Contour Design Shuttle Pro DIGI001 & Layla 24 Sound Cards Midisport 4X4 PTLE 6.1 Cubase SL Cubase VST 5.2 P4 1.5 GHz 1000 MB RAM OS Windows XP Hard Drives: Maxtor 20 Gig 7200 RPM Hard Drive Maxtor Ultra ATA 133, 60 Gig, 8 MB Cache 7200 RPM Hard Drive Gina 20 sound card Midisport 4X4 Cubase 5.2 Gigastudio 160 Keyboard: Korg X5 Network Dave 3.1

I 2nd the avoid Maxtor drives...very unreliable in my experience as a Mac tech (Apple made the unfortunate choice of using Maxtor in their systems several years back...caused all kinds of hell for people). I have *heard* great things about the Western Digital, but I have a Seagate Barracuda ATA IV in my QS 867 (80 GB/ 4 partitions). Hasn't hiccuped in 2 years.

These responses bring me to another question .... Why partition your drive ? Thanks again for all the insight Thanks Big Ern

Get the Western Digital or IBM. Maxtor drives are no good, high failure rate. The ATA/100 vs 133 does not make much difference, and in your computer it will make none at all as you have an ATA/66 controller. These numbers stand for the bus speed of the hard drive controller, 66 is as high as yours goes, but the connections are the same, so you can put an ATA/100 or 133 in your computer and it will work just fine, but only at ATA/66 speeds. Slim