Introduction

Today, I've got for you, two of the best names in there respective fields. Coolerguys and IBM. I've been dealing with Todd from Coolerguys for while now and I gotta say this. He's one of the most "Get it done" guys I know. So one day I was talking to Todd from Coolerguys and he told me they just starting carrying Hard Drives! And they weren't just ANY hard drives....They had the IBM 40 GB GXP series drives along with some nice Quantums too! I had to click "refresh" a couple times in my browser to make sure I wasn't seeing things... heh. First thing I thought was "Wow, A cooling shop carrying hard drives?". I've also thought for awhile now that more cooling/enthusiasts shops should carry some select high performace hardware for the peeps to grab while they're grabbing there cooling stuff. I mean if you'll get your hard drive coolers and fans there...why not the drive itself? Well to help spread the word, I'm bringing the noise to all you guys out there to let you know there's a new hard drive shop in town!..LOL! Todd also explained to me that these were the hard to get versions/size of the IBM's that he stocked also. He prompty sent me a IBM Deskstar 60GXP 40 GB ATA/100 Hard Drive to showcase to you folks. So let's take a look at it shall we?

Contents and Spec's:

 

 

The package arrived just a couple days later. I see it's the OEM drive sealed in an anti-static bag and packaged very "cushy" =) here's some specifications for this particular drive:

Installation
Well, I'm pretty sure most of you could handle the daunting task of installing a new hard drive in your system So i'm not going to get too much into that crap.Just Shut down your computer and unplug it. Remove old hard drive and install the new one in the same manner. You'll only have two connections to worry about. A 4-pin molex connector and the IDE cable itself. Once that is done, place the boot disk in the floppy drive (assuming you'll be doing it this way....if not, well that's another article ), plug in your machine, and start up your system and FDISK the new HD. On a brand new hard drive, you'll need to format it, partition it etc before you can attempt to place an operating system onto the drive. My suggestion on a 40 gig drive would be to make at least two (2) 20 gig partitions. Perfect size to dual boot it or just to have a storage side of the drive to keep your..uhmm...."stuff". (*wink*) I know alot of people that partition there drives and alot that don't. It blows my mind why someone wouldn't partition a hard drive of over 15-20 gigs. Especially a 40 gig+. I've been using a 10/10 partitioned hard drive for a long time and I would never go back. (rambling)...

Ok, the first thing I personally did to install this mutha (mutha = HD ) was slap in into to my new removable hard drive rack. If you wanna use more than one OS on seperate Hard Drives, then a removable hard drive rack is a very good investment. If you've got the coin, I'd recommend picking one up from CoolerGuys along with a hard drive. Here's a peek for ya:

 

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