Now as to choosing the hard disk, I would go with typical UDMA hard
disks 8.4 Gb, the faster ones (66Mhz) are too expensive for this
purchase). In the past Seagate got bad reputation, and I could say that I
would go only with IBM or WD, but I'm not sure that this is still valid.
I can now choose between Seagate and WD, and initially I tend to go
with WD, but wish to hear few more views.


    A friend of mine recently took his UDMA 12.0 gig WD Caviar drive out of
his PII-450 system (192 mb) and replaced it with a Quantum 7200 rpm UDMA 20
gig drive (he paid around $225 or so) and he reports that his boot time has
gone from 30 seconds to 20 seconds.

This sounds like a pretty impressive gain to me, Quantum is growing up, I
think.

-Peter Ramins

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