Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 09:59:08 -0400 From: dochawk@psu.edu To: "Ron Klinkien" <ron@zappa.demon.nl> Cc: "Greg Lehey" <grog@lemis.com>, "Thomas Lau" <lkthomas@hkicable.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Western Digital or IBM of Hard Disk are better? Message-ID: <200105261359.f4QDx8D01600@fac13.ds.psu.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 26 May 2001 10:37:31 %2B0200." <00d301c0e5bf$1ae67900$0404a8c0@smalweer.nl>
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ron rumbled > 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... *sigh* I've got three 15k cheethas slated for my new dual athlon workstation this summer. (plus 4 ide drives as a scratchy drive and raid backup for the scsi system). I've got a feeling this puppy only gets turned on when It's time to run a model. At least I'll be warm in the winter . . . What would be nice would be a simple box with two drive bays and a video card slot to hold a scsi cdrw and the card for the monster monitor, so that the machine could live in another room (or even building! :). But the budgetis already straining . . . hawk -- Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. /"\ ASCII ribbon campaign dochawk@psu.edu Smeal 178 (814) 375-4700 \ / against HTML mail These opinions will not be those of X and postings Penn State until it pays my retainer. / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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