Well with today's technology, they've been able to get data density as high as 40GB per platter (that's what Western Digital's normal drives are).
If you don't want to go with WD, Maxtor makes some good drives - so does IBM.
They've had 15,000 RPM SCSI drives for months now. I imagine they do get hot, but I haven't heard of problems with crashing.
They've had 10,000 RPM drives for years. Haven't really heard that much on that either (except they are noisy)
On the sound card issue. Well the Platinum chipsets support True Dobly Digital recording and remote control use. I think the Value chipsets were only with the original Live! chipsets (not 5.1)
Don't really know much about the differences other than that. You can contact Creative Labs for more info on that.
If you don't want to go with WD, Maxtor makes some good drives - so does IBM.
They've had 15,000 RPM SCSI drives for months now. I imagine they do get hot, but I haven't heard of problems with crashing.
They've had 10,000 RPM drives for years. Haven't really heard that much on that either (except they are noisy)
On the sound card issue. Well the Platinum chipsets support True Dobly Digital recording and remote control use. I think the Value chipsets were only with the original Live! chipsets (not 5.1)
Don't really know much about the differences other than that. You can contact Creative Labs for more info on that.