Re: Which hard drive brand ?

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From: Daniel
Date: Fri, 05 Jul 1996 00:00

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John Clarke (jclarke@mpx.com.au) wrote:
: I have had problems with Maxtor working with other drives as master/slave. 
: Seagate seem to be OK, but I've noticed a tendency to overheat and die on
: several different models (other drives in the same bay worked fine).  I've
: never had a Quantum drive fail, but then maybe I've been lucky, but
: they're were the most reliable based on my experience. 

I've noticed that many of the modern drives get quite hot.  My wife's
maxtor 540s both get too hot to touch.  The IBM scsi in my spare machine 
heats up uncomfortably too.  I was begining to think they all do.

My 1.06gig HP (3323 scsi) drives don't heat up at all.  They stay at
about room temperature.  They may have better power converters or
something.

Are there other drives that run this cool?
Anyone know if the 2.3 gig HPs are as cool running as the 1.06 gig HPs?

--
Daniel B. Suthers, CCP
Systems Analyst, DBSystems
dbs@aimnet.com

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Subject: Re: Which hard drive brand ?
Date: 1996/07/05
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