Re: Which 40gb, 7200rpm HDD?

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From: Mike
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 01:00

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I've always been a Maxtor (
http://www.taconuts.com/reviews/2000/dec/2/page1.php ) fan myself.  They
are cheap and have been fairly reliable.

-Mike

Ribfeast wrote:
> 
> Had two IBM 30 gig 75GXP's go wierd on me the last few weeks, one had bad
> sectors and was replaced under warranty, the other suffered a track
> misalignment (fixed by a low level format).  Watch the cooling in your
> computers guys as this can hurry the track misalignment (head heats up).
> Also have an IBM 60GXP 40GB here running no problems.  Due to the problems
> with my IBM drives I bought a pair of 60 gig Seagate Barracuda IV's and set
> them up as a RAID 0 config.  Dead quiet, absolutely no noise at all during
> seeks.  Benches around 65MB/sec on sequential transfers on the RAID.  The IBMs
> have slightly better seek times than the Seagates, but not enough to be too
> worried about.  I'll stick to Seagate from now on until good user reports of
> the next series of IBM drives trickle in :)
> 
> JNIK wrote:
> 
> > I was planning on going for the IBM Deskstar60GXP 41.1GB to accompany my
> > asus a7m266 mobo but have heard alot of reports lately that they are having
> > alot of troubles with this drive, has anybody got any alternatives they can
> > recommend to me?
> > cheers
> > JNIK

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