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: May 1st, 2002 |
| Category |
: Various |
| Manufacturer |
: Various |
| Author |
: Jin-Wei Tioh |
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Since the TUSI-M doesn't sport an integrated NIC, I decided to go for a D-Link branded RT8139-based NIC. My preferred NIC would be the Intel Pro100+, but the green stuff don't come easy comprende? The D-Link provides decent performance and the RT8139 is supported under a wide range of OSes - I'd venture to say not too far from even 3Com NICs.
Floppy drive is standard issue, although one could opt for a LS120 SuperDrive or a Zip drive. Since there's only one 5.25" bay available, I went for a CDR/W drive since they also read CD-ROMs just dandy anyway. If you want to spend more, look out for those 5.25" DVD + CDR/W combo drives. I've always been partial towards AOpen optical drives, so I went straight for their 16/10/32 unit.
Lastly, the hard drive. Since I plan to put some mods into the secondary HDD bay (probably a 16x2 backlit LCD and a LazerLED), I chose to go for a big single drive - the 80GB Seagate Barracuda IV. You could just as easily have done it with a 10-20GB drive (more than enough for the OS, applications and data), but I needed to bring over a serious amount of data - records of all benchmarks, site dev stuff, MP3s etc. Reason for the 'cuda? It's fast, quiet and runs cool compared to most of the competing 7200RPM HDDs out there.
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