Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 08:40:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian Behlendorf <brian@collab.net> To: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <jeff-ml@mountin.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bad IDE Drive Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010130832240.2254-100000@yez.hyperreal.org> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.20001013005356.00ba4a20@207.227.119.2>
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On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Jeffrey J. Mountin wrote: > IMO, WD went to pot years back their choice on concentrating on the low end > market doesn't help. Seagate's IDE drives seem to have been among the > slowest around. Years back started having better results with Maxtor and > then IBM came in with the best performance and price for *both* SCSI and > IDE. Many have talked about their good experiences with the former, but > can't say I recall much on the latter. I've had two recent IBM drives (both U2W 36G, out of four recently purchased) fail on me recently within weeks of purchase. I would hesitate to recommend them again, which is unfortunate because they used to be completely trustable. Brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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