[KLUG Advocacy] New hard drives?

[Jeff Palmer]

i'm liking WD.... but then again i was never bitten by any of their problems 
either....

seagate Baracuda ATA IV is a nice drive...

the 7200 RPM Maxtors seem to be holding up well despite my general dislike 
for maxtor drives.. and my two biggest complaints about older maxtors have 
been fixed (Really loud seeks... and slower than dog manure in feburary)  
and there is a maxtor in the house... (20Gb 5400 rpm) it's  so much better 
than the slightly older maxtor it replaced that there's just no call for 
it...

personally at this state i think i'd go with one of the three...  and yes i 
used to recomend IBMs....  i never really recomended a fujitsu to anyone 
though... never trusted them...    and my 45Gb 7200rpm 75GXP IBM has never 
even made a bad noise.... always works perfectly... my dads on the other 
hand.........................

The IBM's seem to be be very thermal dependant.... most dead IBM's i've seen 
have come out of cramped cases without enough airflow over the drive..... 
seeing as it was the hottest running IDE drive while it was in production 
that doesn't seem like a good idea to me...  also the ones that die usuall 
have a slightly different revision on the logic board from most of the ones 
that are still working right....  just a few observations that may be of use 
to anyone with a 75GXP series IBM deathst-.. err uhh. deskstar.....

at this point in the game though.... i would most likely buy a western 
digital... just because they're fast... have big buffers (in the JB 
versions..... 8 Mb)  fairly easy to find..... and i've never had the 
slightest bit of trouble with a WD


of course.. i've only ever had 4 drives die.... (non of which in my primary 
system thankfully) a Micrapolis... sorry, micropolis scsi drive (but i think 
they all died)  a seagate 1Gb IDE drive (you know... those reallly thin 3.5 
inch ones??)  a conner 40mb (stiction/bad bearing....  it still tranfered 
dater perfectly once you finally got it to spin)  and a 2.5 gig fujitsu..... 
(the most modern drive i've had die on me and part of the reason i'm not a 
big fan of fujitsu drives)


anyway....   also go read some reviews....


the 8mb buffer WDs seen to be a good choice now.... as do the fluid dynamic 
bearing equipped 7200rpm max's.... and the seagate baracuda ata IV seems 
good... (but i have had a seagate die on me where i haven't a WD or 
max........ but my sample size is way to small to really mean anything)

Jeff

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