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Date:      Mon, 28 Sep 1998 11:33:57 +0200
From:      Johann Visagie <wjv@cityip.co.za>
To:        Jonathan Fosburgh <jef53313@Bayou.UH.EDU>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Caviar Hard Drives
Message-ID:  <19980928113357.F22025@cityip.co.za>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.95q.980924195436.24955A-100000@Bayou.UH.EDU>; from Jonathan Fosburgh on Thu, Sep 24, 1998 at 07:56:49PM -0500
References:  <Pine.OSF.3.95q.980924195436.24955A-100000@Bayou.UH.EDU>

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On Thu, 24 Sep 1998 at 19:56 SAT, Jonathan Fosburgh wrote:
> 
> I am considering adding a second hard drive. The current one is a Maxtor
> (don't know the model) 514 Meg HD. I am considering a Western Digital
> Caviar and would like to know people's experiences with these on FreeBSD.
> I *presume* it would work well, given that WD is the standard, but I could
> always be wrong ...

Every person you ask will have a different opinion as to which drives are
good and which aren't.  :-)

FWIW, I've had quite a few problems with the larger capacity (4GB upwards) WD
drives over the past year or so.  Might just have been a run of bad luck.

-- V

Johann Visagie | Email: wjv@CityIP.co.za | Tel: +27 21 419-7878

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