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bholtzman
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Join Date: Apr 2005
 
2005-04-03, 16:08

Hello,

I am trying to decide on a new hard drive to put in my Mac Mini when it arrives, but I'm having a hard time making a decision on which hard drive to go with. I plan on putting the 80GB 4200prm drive that ships with the Mac Mini in an external enclosure that can be connected via FireWire/USB.

I'm looking at the following 3 hard drives:

Seagate / 100GB / 5400 / 8MB / 2.5" / Retail / Mobile Hard Drive - 269.99 (Canadian):

http://www.seagate.com/cda/products/...81,635,00.html

Seagate / 80GB / 5400 / 8MB / 2.5" / OEM / Mobile Hard Drive - $202.99 (Canadian):

http://www.seagate.com/cda/products/...81,636,00.html

Western Digital / 80GB / 5400 / 8MB / 2.5-in / OEM / Mobile Hard Drive - $188.99 (Canadian):

http://www.westerndigital.com/en/pro...02&Language=en

The Seagate hard drives have a 5 year warranty, where the Western Digital hard drive only has a 3 year warranty .. so I'm kind of leaning towards Seagate. All drives are pretty well the same for average seek time. I'm not sure I want to spend the exta $65 to go from 80GB to 100GB though. What does everything think?

Any suggestions, recommendations or links to reviews on the above products are welcome!

Thanks

Last edited by bholtzman : 2005-04-03 at 17:35.
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