

The Maxtor & Western Digital are industry standards and you get the same benefits you get when buying a Chevrolet or Ford instead of a Sterling or an Citroen. to some extent, space utilization in your room is given options.they can be used in the main machine at a point in the future if you so desire.they are cooled independent of the main machine.Pricing has been set at US499 for the 200Gb (7200RPM/8MB) model, and 549 for the 250GB (5400RPM/2MB) drive. The drives sport a sleek aluminum design, can be placed upright, stacked or rack-mounted, and offer 400Mbps transfer speed. Using an external case with a drive compatible with those in your machine provides you more benefits. LaCie has announced 200GB and 250GB additions to its d2 line of external FireWire hard drives. Data that wouldn't require a lot of processing power as say 3D animation construction, complex games or video editing. (some details differ, but in essence.) Typically I'd use an external for, in the case of a 120Gb unit, 30,000 songs. Those IDE drives in the machine (simply the ones connected to the IDE ports on your motherboard) are quicker because they are closer to the processor, but any external units are not all that slow, especially using a firewire to your USB port the same way you'd plug in a keyboard.

Two advantages come to mind, eogmp3, In this way you can have more hard drive space in addition to the basic limit of 2 in your machine.
