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From: "Ron Klinkien" <ron@zappa.demon.nl>
To: "Greg Lehey" <grog@lemis.com>,
	"Thomas Lau" <lkthomas@hkicable.com>
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Subject: Re: Western Digital or IBM of Hard Disk are better?
Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 10:37:31 +0200
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Another important thing I keep in mind when choosing a harddrive
is the amount of noise they make.

Since a few days I have an IBM Deskstar 60GXP and it's _very
quiet_, it also doesn't get hot at all...

Ron.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Greg Lehey" <grog@lemis.com>
To: "Thomas Lau" <lkthomas@hkicable.com>
Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2001 1:34 AM
Subject: Re: Western Digital or IBM of Hard Disk are better?


> 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
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