On Mon, 13 Oct 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote: hello, i personally have, as my primary drive, an IBM Deskstar 3.6gb. it's *fast* for an eide drive. it was rated fastest by a major computing magazine, although i forget which one. it definitely lives up to the billing. they run about $250 new from several outlets (insight, pczone, cdw, etc.)
hope this helps, matty > On Sat, Oct 11, 1997 at 08:38:23PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > > Simon Karpen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Which WD drives have you had good luck with? > > > I have yet to see a recent one last more than a year... > > > > I have several (3) old Caviar drives. One is a 170 meg and the other > > two are 540 meg. One is six years old; the other, probably about 5; > > and the third is about the same. All worked fine for at least the > > first 4-5 years of their life even though they were powered up > > 24/7/365. The 170 developed some bad sectors about 1/2 year ago; the > > younger 540 meg had the same problem at about the same time. The > > 5-year-old 540 meg is still going strong. > > > > Considering that they were all cheap IDE drives, originally installed > > in a poorly-ventilated case, it is not bad. > > I have similar good experiences with WD. I have a 730mb which is nearly > 3 years old (light load, 24/7 operation) which works fine; actually > come to think of it I have an old 340mb from about 4-5 years ago > which has been running 24/7 for the last two years with no problems. > The 730 has a bad sector or two and is quite noisy now but is otherwise > fine. I have a 1.6GB in my workstation which is nearly two years old. > I also have a Quantum 3.2Gb of about one year in this machine > and I find the Quantum to be a bit slower. I would probably buy WD again, > although I would want ultra DMA next, or maybe even SCSI (which WD > don't do?) > > > Hamish > > -- > Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Student, computer science & computer systems engineering. 3rd year, RMIT. > http://hamish.home.ml.org/ (PGP key here) CPOM: [***** ] 56% > The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. --Bohr > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > Matt Thompson MZI, Inc. v-206.430.3726 707 S. Grady Way f-206.430.3420 Renton, WA 98055 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .