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From: BURTON SAMPLEY <bsampley@haywire.csuhayward.edu>
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Subject: Re: IDE vs SCSI was: flags 80ff works (like anybody doubted it)
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I just had to take a small amount of bandwidth to throw in my $20.00 (2
cents adjusted for inflation)

I presently have a WD 1.6 & 3.1 EIDE drives.  I was using 3.0 current, but
recently down-graded to 2.2.2-R.

I would love to give these drives the 'roof test' and go to SCSI but I
have this common problem among college students (called 'empty wallet
disease').  FYI - stay away from WD!!!  I know too many people that have
run into problems with these drives, myself included.  My father has a 1.2
drive which had to be replaced by WD when it was only 8 months old due to
media failure.  My 1.6 drive was also only 8 months old when I had a
similar problem.  Both drives were purchased from different retailers
about 1 year apart.  Even though the drives were replaced, I just can not
trust  WD again.

As for the comparison of EIDE and SCSI, wouldn't make world times be a
better benchmark?  With a P5-133 (on an ASUS P/I P55T2P4), 128MB 60NS EDO
RAM, 1.6 & 3.1 EIDE drives, the last time I did make world (around July 1,
with nothing else running) it took about 5.5 hours.  I seem to recall
faster times from people with similar hardware but using SCSI disks.  To
me, make world is more of a 'real world' type of measurement for the
drive.

Burton