Re: Which hard drive brand ?

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From: Tyson Richard DOWD
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 00:00

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daveney@speednet.com.au (Graham Daveney) writes:

>Hi Guys,

>   I need to buy a 2 Gig EIDE drive and I have a choice between:

>   Quantum
>   Seagate
>   Maxtor

>   I was hoping to buy the Quantum as that was the largest for my price range.

>   Can you guys let me know if you had any preferences, and which one would
>be the best drive in terms of reliability and abilty to withstand alot of 
>pounding, I was wanting to use it for a news feed so it will need to be 
>pretty robust.

I'm not sure what you mean by 'pounding' and 'robust'. If you mean 'fast',
then you might want to look at something a bit better than EIDE drives.
I've head news can be pretty heavy on disk traffic.
If you mean 'reliable' then you might want to look at the warranties.
Or you might want to buy 2 drives, and keep one on standby.

Of course, it's possible you can afford neither fast nor reliable, in which
case I'd go for 'large' ;-).

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From: trd@murlibobo.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Tyson Richard DOWD)
Subject: Re: Which hard drive brand ?
Date: 1996/06/25
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