Need a new hard drive for your Fusion?

[Jesse]

Check these hard drives out
Western Digital WD Blue WD1600AAJB 160GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache IDE Ultra ATA100 / ATA-6 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive
www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=22-136-112

Western Digital Caviar SE WD800AAJB 80GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache IDE Ultra ATA100 / ATA-6 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive
www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=22-136-457

Note: The WD1600SB listed below is a better hard drive if you can find one

[Jesse]

As far as the max size hard drive the Fusion can use, I think it is a 128 GB IDE and I believe you can install a larger size, but it will only be formatted to 128 GB max useable size

From the Fusion Club Forum at the bottom of page 2 link

Dec 22, 2006 5:19:10 GMT richey51 said:

Hi Jesse

A Sata drive will not work as a main drive,it has to be EIDE.

I researched this out and have the perfect drive for the fusion.

The Western Digital 160 gig that's in my Fusion is a 1 million hour enterprise class drive. The fusion will format 128gig of it before the volume folder is added! This drive can take constant head seeking 24 /7 which is more than we can do to it. The drive can take more shock running and not running than any desktop drive.
The transfer at is 100 MB per sec. it's fast and quiet. One advantage is it is easier on the power supply than the stock drive which is also a Western digital .Buy direct from Western Digital and you get a five year warranty. I have not seen this drive anywhere else . It's made for Audio visual use and small server apps . You have the right idea wanting a fast reliable drive
this is the one , Ive had mine 9 months and it really is a great drive. It's well worth the extra cash. When I bought mine it was 100 dollars, now i t's 20 less.

It is a WD1600SB drive, I just got lucky and picked up a new one for $20 on ebay
Attached is a PDF spec sheet WD1600SB 160 GB IDE-PATA hard drive info.pdf (179.89 KB)

[Jesse]

As of 5-6-2014
WD Blue 160GB Desktop Hard Drive - Designed for everyday computing - 3.5", ATA-100/Eide/Pata, 7200RPM, 8MB Cache, OEM - WD1600AAJB

Tiger Direct $68.84 www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-Details.asp?EdpNo=3554367&SRCCODE=LINKSHARE&cm_mmc_o=-ddCjC1bELltzywCjC-d2CjCdwwp&utm_source=Linkshare&utm_medium=Affiliate&utm_campaign=jo/pTdthTuc&AffiliateID=jo_pTdthTuc-VYeRtdgzvO.oAXw3LxfdZQ

CDW $72.99 www.cdw.com/shop/products/WD-Caviar-Blue-WD1600AAJB-hard-drive-160-GB-ATA-100/1319464.aspx

Amazon $27 includes S&H www.amazon.com/Blue-160-Desktop-Hard-Drive/dp/B000VRZ7PA/ref=sr_1_3?m=A3O6GNX9CB6SWD&s=merchant-items&ie=UTF8&qid=1399354823&sr=1-3

[Jesse]

Check out parametric's SSD post link