🚀 go-pugleaf

On Tue, 02 Jul 1996 22:43:53 -0700, Ramon Gandia <nsrfg@nome.net> wrote:
>> : daveney@speednet.com.au (Graham Daveney) writes:
>> :
>> : >Hi Guys,
>> :
>> : >   I need to buy a 2 Gig EIDE drive and I have a choice between:

>I have one WD Caviar 250 mb, and two WD Caviar 1.6gig.  All run
>Linux.  No problems.  These drives are Q.U.I.E.T.  Barely hear
>the motor, and just gentle clicking when reading or writing.  In
>contrast there is a DOS/Windows Maxtor 170 mB, and you can hear the
>whine and screech all over the house.  However, it hasn't failed yet.

>All my Seagates except the last have died, so I don't consider them
>anymore.

>WD now goes up to 2 gig and beyond on IDE drives.  Prices are very
>good on NECX check out http://www.necx.com.  

>Ramon.  Nome, Alaska.  50F, cloudy

I've had a Western Digital 1.2 gig IDE hard drive go bad on a client of mine,
but I believe it was the victim of some sort of electrical storm.

My WD 540 and 1.2 gig drives, on the other hand, have worked like a charm for
quite some time (both were purchased when they were the largest IDE drives
going).  I purchased a 2.5 gig WD in mid-May, but the jury's still out, since
the one time I've had to fsck it (due to a system crash), it seemed to me like
there were some hardware errors.  I'll have to force an fsck again just to see
what's going on...

Western Digital is very good about replacing broken drives, though, so I may
wind up getting a replacement for the 2.5 gig.

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John GOTTS <jgotts@engin.umich.edu> http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~jgotts