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From: Dan Janowski <danj@3skel.com>
To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@ki.net>
Cc: Steve Passe <smp@csn.net>, smp@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: GigaByte GA-586DX-512 Motherboard 
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Marc G. Fournier writes:
 > 
 > 	Does anyone have any recommendations on drives?  Or, any drives
 > in particular I should stick away from?  I heard that SeaGate went downhill
 > for awhile there...anyone have a current opinion of them?

The Conner stuff that Seagate bought is less than desirable. I
have two IDEs that I am swapping out. If you are doing SCSI,
the Baracudas are really good. I have an ST32550N, two of
them. I would recommend the Baracuda or the IBM starfire,
both high spindle speed, fast drives. Quantum, hold on to your ....
No Atlas 1s, Atlas 2s I have not tried.

Dan