Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 10:37:31 +0200 From: "Ron Klinkien" <ron@zappa.demon.nl> To: "Greg Lehey" <grog@lemis.com>, "Thomas Lau" <lkthomas@hkicable.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Western Digital or IBM of Hard Disk are better? Message-ID: <00d301c0e5bf$1ae67900$0404a8c0@smalweer.nl> References: <000001c0e5a6$aeff1b60$9c10123d@lau> <20010526090447.D25626@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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Another important thing I keep in mind when choosing a harddrive is the amount of noise they make. Since a few days I have an IBM Deskstar 60GXP and it's _very quiet_, it also doesn't get hot at all... Ron. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Greg Lehey" <grog@lemis.com> To: "Thomas Lau" <lkthomas@hkicable.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2001 1:34 AM Subject: Re: Western Digital or IBM of Hard Disk are better? > On Friday, 25 May 2001 at 22:42:42 -0700, Thomas Lau wrote: > > well, I hear that WD of 5400RPM HD speed near 7200RPM, is it ture? > > No. > > > and my 34.2GB IBM HD was dead, I will not trust IBM anymore because > > have problem 3times ago > > All manufacturers' hard disks fail. IBM has quite a good reputation. > > > I want to use IDE. not SCSI! please make some suggestion, and > > please leave out your suggested HD of model type, so it can help me > > to search about it, > > How can it help to leave it out? > > The German magazine c't did a comparison of hard disks about a year > ago; at that time, IBM had by far the best performance. I have used > them and had no problems. > > Greg > -- > When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. > If you don't, I may ignore the reply. > For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html > Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key > See complete headers for address and phone numbers > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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