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Date:      Fri, 25 May 2001 16:32:57 +0100
From:      "G D McKee" <freebsd@gdmckee.com>
To:        "Thomas Lau" <lkthomas@hkicable.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Western Digital or IBM of Hard Disk are better?
Message-ID:  <012301c0e52f$f96d7e20$0a00a8c0@gdmckee.local>
References:  <000001c0e5a6$aeff1b60$9c10123d@lau>

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I have never had any problems with IBM disks - SCSI or IDE.  Try Fujitsu.  The only HDD's I have had that have died are Quantum.

Gordon
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Thomas Lau 
  To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG 
  Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2001 6:42 AM
  Subject: Western Digital or IBM of Hard Disk are better?


  well, I hear that WD of 5400RPM HD speed near 7200RPM, is it ture?
  and my 34.2GB IBM HD was dead, I will not trust IBM anymore
  because have problem 3times ago
  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, Thanks

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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have never had any problems with IBM disks - SCSI 
or IDE.&nbsp; Try Fujitsu.&nbsp; The only HDD's I have had that have died are 
Quantum.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Gordon</FONT></DIV>
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  <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
  <DIV 
  style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> 
  <A title=lkthomas@hkicable.com href="mailto:lkthomas@hkicable.com">Thomas 
  Lau</A> </DIV>
  <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A 
  title=freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG 
  href="mailto:freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG">freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG</A> 
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  <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, May 26, 2001 6:42 
AM</DIV>
  <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Western Digital or IBM of Hard 
  Disk are better?</DIV>
  <DIV><BR></DIV>
  <DIV><FONT face=&#23435;&#20307; size=2><SPAN class=600143805-26052001>well, I hear that WD 
  of 5400RPM HD speed near 7200RPM, is it ture?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
  <DIV><FONT face=&#23435;&#20307; size=2><SPAN class=600143805-26052001>and my 34.2GB IBM HD 
  was dead, I will not trust IBM anymore</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
  <DIV><FONT face=&#23435;&#20307; size=2><SPAN class=600143805-26052001>because have problem 
  3times ago</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
  <DIV><FONT face=&#23435;&#20307; size=2><SPAN class=600143805-26052001>I want to use IDE. 
  not SCSI!</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
  <DIV><FONT face=&#23435;&#20307; size=2><SPAN class=600143805-26052001>please make some 
  suggestion, and please leave out your suggested HD of model type, so it can 
  help me to search about it, 
Thanks</SPAN></FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>

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