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RE: What type of HD?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Frank N. Stein)
Tue Nov 17 07:11:01 1998
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Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 06:13:20 -0600 (CST)
From: "Frank N. Stein" <kcsmart@microlink.net>
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On 17-Nov-98 Scottie complained about What type of HD?:
> hi..
> i'm planning to buy a hard disk....and i think i need about 4-5 gb..
>
> can u tell me what drive i should buy....
No. But, I can tell you what I know.
Using a Seagate drive here. It gives seek errors on boot but, that's
the only time. Runs like a champ. Used to worry me when I first
installed it. It's been running for about a year now with no changes in
this so I think it's safe now.
Got a Maxtor on a 'Doze box. It's been acting up since the day I
installed it. I expect to wake up some morning with my wife screaming
at me that she's lost everything. Heard of similar problems from others.
Have _heard_ of Western Digital problems. Can't verify that. I have one
running great but, it's a coupla years old (OK 4 or 5 years old) and
may not suffer from the problems I've heard from others about them.
Can't recall a hearing a single problem anywhere about Fujisu drives.
Might be safe to use.
Personally, I'm gonna buy a couple of more Seagates and live with the
errors during boot since they haven't affected anything more than a
couple of lines in the logs.
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