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From: Vince Vielhaber <vev@michvhf.com>
To: The Classiest Man Alive <ksmm@threespace.com>
Subject: Re: IDE drive recommendations?
Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, Viren R.Shah <viren@rstcorp.com>
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On 29-Mar-99 The Classiest Man Alive wrote:
> I've had decent experiences with IBM, Maxtor, and Quantum drives (in order
> starting with the best).  They all seem to make pretty good workstation
> components, although I'd ask around on long-term reliability if you're
> planning on using these drives in a server.  (Of course, the response
> you'll probably get around here is "Use SCSI instead." :-/ )

You sure don't wanna use one in a news server :)   For a desktop or low to
medium traffic server (office duty and/or not too busy web and mail server)
an IDE should be fine.  I just installed the 7200RPM IBM 10.1GB drive in a
customer's machine so I can't guess on how well it's gonna hold up but I've
abused IBM drives in the past.  This one set up quickly under 3.1-RELEASE
from the CD's.

Vince.
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