Hi,, don't knock the WD hard drives.... (I just bought one not long ago, before I knew they were bad, so I feel obliged to defend it. :-) current uptime is 18 days.(was 28 days, but I shutdown to add a UPS) On an abit KT7a motherboard (686b southbridge) with a Duron 900 running at 1gig... (huge supercooler 7000rpm, linked to the powersupply not the MB header to stop it drawing to much power and burning out the MB header, (but the sense wire is connected to the header for the fan alarm.) Using ReiserFS on a 20gig 7200rpm Western Digital drive.. I like tempting fate,, ,thinking of adding a Sound Blaster live! :-) lol... inncidently, that setup gets a consistant hdparm result of 31.9mb/sec (just ran it 20 times and took the average.) >From my understanding, that isn't that bad a speed results, I have heard similiar results from full ATA100 non WD harddisks... so its not that far off the 8ball, although as soon as I find a windows user that wants a 20 gig 7200 hard drive, I will sell them mine and get a 7200 rpm IBM drive... regards Frank -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Rusty Carruth Sent: Tuesday, 10 July 2001 10:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE[2]: [expert] Seagate 20.4 Gig HD for $74 -- Good deal? > .... But I am concerned about reliability and performance. well, I've no real comments there - I've used Maxtor, Seagate, WD (gasp! :-), IBM, ... I had one WD fail at the end of warranty, and they replaced it even though I did not contact them until after the warranty had expired. However, they also fudge on the specs... > And, most of all, I would like to know > whether LM 8.0 can handle a 20.4 Gig hard drive in the first place. I had 8.0 talking happily to a 40 gig drive, so I think the answer is a resounding 'yes' :-) rc
