From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Mar 30 5:12:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from assurance.rstcorp.com (unknown [206.29.49.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D3BB15011 for ; Tue, 30 Mar 1999 05:12:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from vshah@rstcorp.com) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by assurance.rstcorp.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA04433; Tue, 30 Mar 1999 08:13:11 -0500 Received: from sandbox.rstcorp.com(206.29.49.63) by assurance.rstcorp.com via smap (V2.0) id xma004431; Tue, 30 Mar 99 13:12:56 GMT Received: from jabberwock.rstcorp.com (jabberwock [206.29.49.98]) by sandbox.rstcorp.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA20130; Tue, 30 Mar 1999 08:11:55 -0500 (EST) Received: (from vshah@localhost) by jabberwock.rstcorp.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) id IAA27058; Tue, 30 Mar 1999 08:11:55 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 08:11:55 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199903301311.IAA27058@jabberwock.rstcorp.com> From: "Viren R. Shah" To: Vince Vielhaber Cc: The Classiest Man Alive , freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IDE drive recommendations? [Summary] In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: "Viren R. Shah" X-Face: )~y+U*K:yzjz{q<5lzpI_SVef'U.])9g[C9`1N@]u3,MHY7f*l7C)[_NjM4y4K8$uIUh|\u (K&&HS6,M!61&GMTk'mqmB/Qg]]X}"?TzsFl]"2v!bl8']dma.:^IY^a[lbOI>U:b<~FyK3q-p{HmZ mn~g.`~BE!5{2D:}Yi+\_KkWe?XaHj9$ko1k8iKLYv5*_2c8"G=?Up[}hn+7RNM(bzBZ_wWk6!Pf&B ?3Tcm7M7B~W%K/I0aX3]*=jP?aM]H6HBPT`oLk+0n^_;N\2\%|Rhy;p}34Q.jEsM\qtnxcm;ag%Nq Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.106) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >>>>> "Vince" == Vince Vielhaber writes: Vince> On 29-Mar-99 The Classiest Man Alive wrote: >> I've had decent experiences with IBM, Maxtor, and Quantum drives (in order Vince> an IDE should be fine. I just installed the 7200RPM IBM Vince> 10.1GB drive in a customer's machine so I can't guess on how Vince> well it's gonna hold up but I've abused IBM drives in the Gregory Benjamin: >IBM 14GXP >This is a 7200 RPM drive with 14+ GB capacity. Alex Sel'kov: >Definitely IBM. All other HD vendors have innaceptible drive quality >in past two years. Just in a few last weeks "drug'n'drop" in trash >two Quantum Seems like a pretty definite vote for IBM espcially the IBM 14GXP (10GB or 14.4GB) drives. Thanks guys. Viren -- Viren Shah | "You can't trust code that you did not totally Research Associate, RST Inc. | create yourself. (Especially code from viren@rstcorp.com | companies that employ people like me.)" http://www.rstcorp.com/~vshah | - Ken Thompson "Reflections on Trusting Trust" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message