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In article <789344050snz@oxfordll.demon.co.uk> mlloyd@oxfordll.demon.co.uk writes:
>IBM      DSA-3540      546Mb  11ms         149

	Good drive.  Like it.  Recommend it.

>MAXTOR   7540AV        540Mb  12ms         159

	I will take this opportunity to hack on the Maxtor.  I've had a 
few bad ones recently, one of them being a little two noisy, 
another with about 4MB in bad sectors.

>SEAGATE  ST3660A       540Mb  12ms         179 
>WESTERN- AC2540        540Mb  12ms         179
>DIGITAL

	No clue about these.  However, I have heard that WD's don't slave 
up well with anything else.  (In fact I've had trouble doing it as well)  
So if you are looking for a slave/master, don't get the WD.  (IBM and 
MAXTOR slave/master fine in my experience)

>Which drive offers the greatest throughput? Why are the prices so varied
>(often against common sense?) Which would you buy? Would I need a VLB
>controller card (rather than ISA bus) to take advantage of any high speed,
>on my 486 DX2 66Mhz PC?

	You might as well throw one in.  Depending on the one you get, 
you can get throughput rates of 25% better.  The prices are likely 
different as the drives probably have different cache sizes.  I believe 
the WD drive has the biggest cache, but I really don't know for sure.  If 
you do get a VLB card, make sure that you load the driver for it, it 
makes a huge difference...

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