There's a balance in there somewhere. I've had a 40g 7200rpm IBM in
my machine running fine for 2 1/2 years now. But I've had three 70
gig IBM's blow at work over the last year. I've also had some
problems with Western Digital where the pins physically come out of the
back (they were moved a fair bit from machine to machine though).
Admittedly if is stays in the machine this wont be an issue, and all the above
were replaced under warranty. This doesn't help though if your tracks
aren't backed up. We're using Seagates as they seem the most reliable and
sturdy (especially as they are coated all round). Slight performance dip
against the IBM's though...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 22 January 2003 09:49
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Subject: [dnb-prod] Re: xp2000 kit???I wouldn't even touch ANY ibm hard disk, even with yours! Our company specialises in building computers for digital video editing and we've had over 70% of our ibm hard disks fail, usually just after a year and half or so. Fair enough the disks are quick, but this shouldn't be at the expense of reliability. We've since switched to Western Digital and had no complaints whatsoever.--------Original Message-----
From: John Dominy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 22 January 2003 01:47
To: Drum & Bass Arena Discussion List
Subject: [dnb-prod] Re: xp2000 kit???I have to say that the nForce chipset is good under Xp or XP Pro... But under Win 2K or 98SE you are not getting the most out of the board. BTW if you got cash to burn I always buy IBM hard drives. They are the fastest IDE drives on the planet. I put a IBM ATA 100 drive up against a Seagate Ultra 160 SCSI drive (Adaptec controler card), and the IBM beat it down... by 10MB per sec though put. IBM has a 16BM cache model that is out or is coming out soon. I have been a tech for 8 years now. I don't really like MSI or GIGABYTEmyarse boards... I have found that FIC and ASUS are the best consumer boards you can buy... If you have any ??? pm me at
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vincel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
check out the nforce2 chipset motherboards, been getting great reviews for
amd machine
can easily disable onboard sound on most motherboards
IDE drives are pretty fast these days, probably don't need RAID, look into
getting a Western Digital special edition with the 8 meg cache, i just
picked one up and they blaze.
nothings too big for a hard drive =P
-grayscale-
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From: "luna tek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Drum & Bass Arena Discussion List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 10:41 AM
Subject: [dnb-prod] xp2000 kit???
> building a new computer this weekend, wanted to ask for suggestions on a
few points:
>
> prolly buying an xp2000 or xp2200 and am looking at Gigabyte and MSI
motherboards, can anyone recommend a model?
>
> since onboard sound is on all motherboards these days, is there anything i
need to consider. does BIOS disabling work well enough.
>
> not really considering RAID, should i, should be good for recording?
>
> is 80g too big for an HD?
>
> peace and love
> lunatek
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