Benjamin Sher wrote:
>
> Dear friends:
>
> I am about to buy a 20.4 gig hardrive for my AMD K6-2 400 Mhz and LM
> 8.0. I would appreciate your professional advise. I am considering
> buying it from TigerDirect. The Seagate 20.4 HD has a "Seek time" of
> 8.9, a transfer rate of 100MB/s an rpm of 5400, a buffer of 512 and 3
The Ultra ATA/100 @ 5400 RPM will not give you much improvement with
your present motherboard and onboard ide controller.
You might want to look at a drive with 7200 RPM which would give some
speed boost.
IBM, or Maxtor; I've had good success with these.
LM 8.0 will have no problem handling a 20.4 Gig drive assuming that your
motherboard and BIOS supports drives of this size.
A 20 Gig 7200 RPM drive goes for about $79-89 here in San Diego, but
then we have an extremely competitive market.
> years warranty for $74. I am not concerned about whether it's the state
> of the art. My AMD K6-2 is already an antique. But I am concerned about
> reliability and performance. And, most of all, I would like to know
> whether LM 8.0 can handle a 20.4 Gig hard drive in the first place.
>
> I would appreciate your opinions.
>
> Thanks so much.
>
> Benjamin
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