I recently bought and just installed yesterday a 6 gig ibm drive from
mce in my 2400. Since I just started using it, I can't really give a
detailed report but so far it is not noisy. However, I haven't really
done intensive stuff yet. I think (hope) only the 8 gig ibm drives
have issues. My experience with IBM drives in servers has been
pretty good. I've only had one of their drives die and ibm was pretty
good about replacing it. I hope their quality carries over into
laptop drives.
I benchmarked the 6 gig ibm against the stock 1.2, also an IBM, and
it's more than twice as fast; 3364/8071 in reads and 4063/8678 in
writes, according to hard disk toolkit. The drive is actually faster
than most 3.5 inch fast scsi-2 drives I've tested. Also, movies play
smoother which is odd since 3.3meg/sec is more than fast enough for
mpeg and sorrenson video.
Howard
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>Ken,
>
>I had an 8 gig IBM drive in my 300 MHz wallstreet, and the drives were
>sensitive to heating. (or should I say overheating, since you can fry an
>egg on the wallstreet if you run it all day) When you got the drive too hot,
>it would become more noisy, and the more heat and the more time that when
>by, I got so bad I hard to have it replaced under warranty. I went through 2
>IBM drives in 9 months, then I replaced it with a 6 gig toshiba drive, and
>was much happier. The toshiba drives are quiter even than a new ibm drive.
>
>I highly recommend the toshiba drives.
>
>Mark
>
>P.S. Thanks again for the CD drive.
>
>
>on 8/5/00 12:20 PM, Harbourmaster at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> DUOfolks,
>>
>> The last component I need for my 2300 buildup is a harddrive.
>>
>> Looking around the web I found these drives on the "closeout" page at MCE
>>
>> http://store.powerbook1.com/hardrivup.html
>>
>> The 6 gig drives look real tempting at these prices so what I would like is
>> some
>> feedback good, bad or ugly from anyone that has used these drives.
>>
>> TIA
>>
> > Aloha, Ken
>
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