--- You wrote: The ones which are NOT good are those which *appear* to be the same as the regular priced drive, but instead only have 2 MB cache (or some other significant alteration).
These turned out to be the same HDA (head disk assembly), but the logic board was completely different. A number of my acquaintances and I have experienced D.O.A. or infant mortality with these "bait and switch" drives (2 MB cache instead of 8 MB). --- end of quote --- This is pretty horrifying. I guess I've been lucky with the three I've bought, one of which was the "free 20gig" Maxtor, which is currently my 9.2 boot drive and has been reliable for about a year. Seemed like a great deal at the time. It even came with a useless (to a Mac) 133 pci card. It's interesting that 8 meg or 2 meg ram caches seem to perform the same on my Beige with an ATA 133 card, according to tests with Hard Disk Speed Tools. Must be the Beige bus limitations. I'd appreciate any enlightenment on whether this is really the case. The two meg cache drive seems to be plenty adequate for DV video too, by the way. I guess I'd better see to my back up routines. Rich -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
