Re: [expert] Seagate 20.4 Gig HD for $74 -- Good deal?
LM8.0 has no trouble with my two 30gig and one 40 gig drives, but (based on personal experience) I wouldn't take a Seagate drive for free. Jay On Monday 09 July 2001 h:47, Benjamin Sher wrote: > Dear friends: > > I am about to buy a 20.4 gig hardrive for my AMD K6-2 400 Mhz and LM > 8.0. I would appreciate your professional advise. I am considering > buying it from TigerDirect. The Seagate 20.4 HD has a "Seek time" of > 8.9, a transfer rate of 100MB/s an rpm of 5400, a buffer of 512 and 3 > years warranty for $74. I am not concerned about whether it's the state > of the art. My AMD K6-2 is already an antique. But I am concerned about > reliability and performance. 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 would appreciate your opinions. > > Thanks so much. > > Benjamin -- Life is great ... it's just the individual moments that make up life that seem to be the problem.
Re: [expert] Seagate 20.4 Gig HD for $74 -- Good deal?
Benjamin Sher wrote: > > Dear friends: > > I am about to buy a 20.4 gig hardrive for my AMD K6-2 400 Mhz and LM > 8.0. I would appreciate your professional advise. I am considering > buying it from TigerDirect. The Seagate 20.4 HD has a "Seek time" of > 8.9, a transfer rate of 100MB/s an rpm of 5400, a buffer of 512 and 3 > years warranty for $74. I am not concerned about whether it's the state > of the art. My AMD K6-2 is already an antique. But I am concerned about > reliability and performance. 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 would appreciate your opinions. > > Thanks so much. > > Benjamin > > -- > Sher's Russian Web > http://www.websher.net > Benjamin and Anna Sher > [EMAIL PROTECTED] yes it will. I believe the limit is 120 gb or something like that. I am using a 26 gb drive from seagate. eric
RE: [expert] Seagate 20.4 Gig HD for $74 -- Good deal?
I think this may be marginal in price. I've seen 15 gig Maxtor drives for $50 after rebate. And I bought 40 gig 7200rpm IBM drives for $130 last month. Which LM 8 supported ONCE I flashed my BIOS to allow the computer to boot past the IDE detection phase. What didn't work successfully, in my case, was putting the hard drive on my HT366 controller. I got occasional DMA timeouts that required a reboot. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Benjamin Sher Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 9:48 PM To: Expert Subject: [expert] Seagate 20.4 Gig HD for $74 -- Good deal? Dear friends: The Seagate 20.4 HD has a "Seek time" of 8.9, a transfer rate of 100MB/s an rpm of 5400, a buffer of 512 and 3 years warranty for $74. I am not concerned about whether it's the state of the art. My AMD K6-2 is already an antique. But I am concerned about reliability and performance. 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.
Re: [expert] Seagate 20.4 Gig HD for $74 -- Good deal?
On Mon, 9 Jul 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > That works fine under Linux Mandrake, as well, but her > K6-2's motherboard (Asus A7V) did not recognize the full size of the drive > out of the box. Correction - the motherboard is P5A, not A7V. You'd just break pins trying to use a K6-2 in an A7V (being for athlons and all). ;)
Re: [expert] Seagate 20.4 Gig HD for $74 -- Good deal?
My vendor of choice is ucdweb- http://www.ucdweb.com/ They've been a very reliable vendor for me - first experience was February 1998, buying drives for a database server's RAID. 4 IBM 4GB SCSI disks - all of which are alive and kicking over 3 years later. :) By comparison, the majority of the Seagates from that period and younger I've had bit the dust some time ago. I most recently got a 75GB IBM IDE disk from them for my g/f's workstation. That works fine under Linux Mandrake, as well, but her K6-2's motherboard (Asus A7V) did not recognize the full size of the drive out of the box. One of those Promise Ultra100 cards was required to get everything working together. Mandrake 8 works happily with it with the ide=reverse option in lilo.conf (or on the lilo boot prompt before you've had a chance to edit lilo.conf) Anyway, the prices: IBM 20GB ATA/100 7200RPM drives w/ 8.5ms seek are $98, Maxtor 20GB ATA/100 7200RPM 9.5ms seek are $92. (the low-end maxtors presumably w/ 5400RPM are $81) Hope this helps! -pete On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Larry Sword wrote: > Benjamin Sher wrote: > > > > Dear friends: > > > > I am about to buy a 20.4 gig hardrive for my AMD K6-2 400 Mhz and LM > > 8.0. I would appreciate your professional advise. I am considering > > buying it from TigerDirect. The Seagate 20.4 HD has a "Seek time" of > > 8.9, a transfer rate of 100MB/s an rpm of 5400, a buffer of 512 and 3 > > The Ultra ATA/100 @ 5400 RPM will not give you much improvement with > your present motherboard and onboard ide controller. > You might want to look at a drive with 7200 RPM which would give some > speed boost. > IBM, or Maxtor; I've had good success with these. > LM 8.0 will have no problem handling a 20.4 Gig drive assuming that your > motherboard and BIOS supports drives of this size. > A 20 Gig 7200 RPM drive goes for about $79-89 here in San Diego, but > then we have an extremely competitive market. > > > years warranty for $74. I am not concerned about whether it's the state > > of the art. My AMD K6-2 is already an antique. But I am concerned about > > reliability and performance. 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 would appreciate your opinions. > > > > Thanks so much. > > > > Benjamin > > > > -- > > Sher's Russian Web > > http://www.websher.net > > Benjamin and Anna Sher > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Larry > -- > Sword'sEdge > VoiceMail/Fax: (858) 860-6406 x1587 >
Re: [expert] Seagate 20.4 Gig HD for $74 -- Good deal?
Benjamin Sher wrote: > > Dear friends: > > I am about to buy a 20.4 gig hardrive for my AMD K6-2 400 Mhz and LM > 8.0. I would appreciate your professional advise. I am considering > buying it from TigerDirect. The Seagate 20.4 HD has a "Seek time" of > 8.9, a transfer rate of 100MB/s an rpm of 5400, a buffer of 512 and 3 The Ultra ATA/100 @ 5400 RPM will not give you much improvement with your present motherboard and onboard ide controller. You might want to look at a drive with 7200 RPM which would give some speed boost. IBM, or Maxtor; I've had good success with these. LM 8.0 will have no problem handling a 20.4 Gig drive assuming that your motherboard and BIOS supports drives of this size. A 20 Gig 7200 RPM drive goes for about $79-89 here in San Diego, but then we have an extremely competitive market. > years warranty for $74. I am not concerned about whether it's the state > of the art. My AMD K6-2 is already an antique. But I am concerned about > reliability and performance. 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 would appreciate your opinions. > > Thanks so much. > > Benjamin > > -- > Sher's Russian Web > http://www.websher.net > Benjamin and Anna Sher > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Larry -- Sword'sEdge VoiceMail/Fax: (858) 860-6406 x1587
