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Originally posted by gmat
9GB drives dont exist anymore. The min is 18GB, and even those are phased out right now. Look at storagereview.com to know about latest news. And stay clear of IBM !!!
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Something nobody has mentioned yet---used drives.
I got an IBM DGVS09U (Ultrastar 9ZX) 9.1GB used off Ebay that I'm more than happy with. Also, if you look around enough, there are still a few 9GB Atlas IV's around NIB for about $80 each--we run them RAID1 in our mail servers at work for OS drives, and put /var and swap on Atlas 10K III's running in RAID5.
And GMAT is absolutely correct--there is
no comparison between using a machine with SCSI disks as opposed to one with IDE disks, especially if you make a swap partition beginning at cylinder 0 (sorry Win98 users...).
Even an old, used SCSI disk will in many ways outperform a 'modern' IDE one, and probably outlive it, too.
Oh, and as a personal anecdote, the 64bit adaptec's run just fine in a 32bit slot, as if there were any doubt.
