From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 25 16:34:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BB6C37B424 for ; Fri, 25 May 2001 16:34:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 0FFFE6ACBC; Sat, 26 May 2001 09:04:47 +0930 (CST) Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 09:04:47 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Thomas Lau Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Western Digital or IBM of Hard Disk are better? Message-ID: <20010526090447.D25626@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <000001c0e5a6$aeff1b60$9c10123d@lau> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <000001c0e5a6$aeff1b60$9c10123d@lau>; from lkthomas@hkicable.com on Fri, May 25, 2001 at 10:42:42PM -0700 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, 25 May 2001 at 22:42:42 -0700, Thomas Lau wrote: > well, I hear that WD of 5400RPM HD speed near 7200RPM, is it ture? No. > and my 34.2GB IBM HD was dead, I will not trust IBM anymore because > have problem 3times ago All manufacturers' hard disks fail. IBM has quite a good reputation. > I want to use IDE. not SCSI! please make some suggestion, and > please leave out your suggested HD of model type, so it can help me > to search about it, How can it help to leave it out? The German magazine c't did a comparison of hard disks about a year ago; at that time, IBM had by far the best performance. I have used them and had no problems. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message