Re: Which 40gb, 7200rpm HDD?

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From: Cory Dunkle
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 21:44

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I'd stick with IBM. They are the fastest IDE drives available, and are
extremely reliable. I've had a good deal of trouble with Maxtor drives, a
few died and more than a few make odd noises during normal operation. I now
use IBM or Western Digital if it's a tight budget. Through the years of
building systems for people I've had 4 Maxtor drives die during normal use
within a year or so, and have had one DOA IBM 14GXP. A few 6.4 gig WD drives
died on me, but after 3 replacements WD acknowledged there was a problem
with that specific model and sent me an 8 gig to replace it, which has
worked flawlessly.

"JNIK" <Shaw57@btinternet.com> wrote in message
news:9onkb4$r2$1@neptunium.btinternet.com...
> 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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