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Date:      Sat, 26 May 2001 09:04:47 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Thomas Lau <lkthomas@hkicable.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Western Digital or IBM of Hard Disk are better?
Message-ID:  <20010526090447.D25626@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <000001c0e5a6$aeff1b60$9c10123d@lau>; from lkthomas@hkicable.com on Fri, May 25, 2001 at 10:42:42PM -0700
References:  <000001c0e5a6$aeff1b60$9c10123d@lau>

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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
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