On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 06:43:59PM -0800, Allen Brown wrote: > Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 18:43:59 -0800 > From: Allen Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] craptastic new drives I got at fry's :( > > LinuxRocks! wrote: > >So... I had to drive to pdx last week, and i figured i'd check fry's for > >sata disks, since i wanted some, and didnt want to deal with rebates or > >shipping and all that mess. > > There are two classes of things that are safe to buy at Frys: > 1. Things that you can test in the parking lot. > 2. Things that you don't care of they are worthless.
Yeah, i was actually thinking about that when i got them, but i guess being brand new, unopended, non-refurb... that it would be ok this time... I still havnt called maxtor or fry's... I did spend a bunch of the day checking the drives out. Now one drive wont pass post with it connected. Ive looked over the disk, and it turns out to be a different model than the other (working) one! the box's are identical (I checked every number on them), but the drives are different. one is 6L200S0, the good one is 6L200M0. After looking things over, it looks like one came from singapore, and one from china. well... I guess i'll deal with it in the morning. so far, im totally unimpressed with SATA. my maxtor 160 GB IDE (on an ata100 controller) is faster than my brand new 200gb SATA 150. I saw something about sata II being 300MB/s, if i could see that kind of performance difference, then sata might be worth the trouble, but then, i dont know if i need faster... Jamie > -- > Allen Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.peak.org/~abrown/ > Television: the bland leading the bland. ---Anonymous > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
