Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 08:11:55 -0500 (EST) From: "Viren R. Shah" <viren@rstcorp.com> To: Vince Vielhaber <vev@michvhf.com> Cc: The Classiest Man Alive <ksmm@threespace.com>, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IDE drive recommendations? [Summary] Message-ID: <199903301311.IAA27058@jabberwock.rstcorp.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.990329160221.vev@michvhf.com> References: <Pine.BSI.3.95.990329154838.27339C-100000@kalypso.cybercom.net> <XFMail.990329160221.vev@michvhf.com>
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>>>>> "Vince" == Vince Vielhaber <vev@michvhf.com> writes: Vince> On 29-Mar-99 The Classiest Man Alive wrote: >> I've had decent experiences with IBM, Maxtor, and Quantum drives (in order Vince> an IDE should be fine. I just installed the 7200RPM IBM Vince> 10.1GB drive in a customer's machine so I can't guess on how Vince> well it's gonna hold up but I've abused IBM drives in the Gregory Benjamin: >IBM 14GXP >This is a 7200 RPM drive with 14+ GB capacity. Alex Sel'kov: >Definitely IBM. All other HD vendors have innaceptible drive quality >in past two years. Just in a few last weeks "drug'n'drop" in trash >two Quantum Seems like a pretty definite vote for IBM espcially the IBM 14GXP (10GB or 14.4GB) drives. Thanks guys. Viren -- Viren Shah | "You can't trust code that you did not totally Research Associate, RST Inc. | create yourself. (Especially code from viren@rstcorp.com | companies that employ people like me.)" http://www.rstcorp.com/~vshah | - Ken Thompson "Reflections on Trusting Trust" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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