My vendor of choice is ucdweb- http://www.ucdweb.com/ They've been a
very reliable vendor for me - first experience was February 1998, buying
drives for a database server's RAID. 4 IBM 4GB SCSI disks - all of which
are alive and kicking over 3 years later. :) By comparison, the majority
of the Seagates from that period and younger I've had bit the dust some
time ago.
I most recently got a 75GB IBM IDE disk from them for my g/f's
workstation. That works fine under Linux Mandrake, as well, but her
K6-2's motherboard (Asus A7V) did not recognize the full size of the drive
out of the box. One of those Promise Ultra100 cards was required to get
everything working together. Mandrake 8 works happily with it with the
ide=reverse option in lilo.conf (or on the lilo boot prompt before you've
had a chance to edit lilo.conf)
Anyway, the prices:
IBM 20GB ATA/100 7200RPM drives w/ 8.5ms seek are $98,
Maxtor 20GB ATA/100 7200RPM 9.5ms seek are $92. (the low-end maxtors
presumably w/ 5400RPM are $81)
Hope this helps!
-pete
On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Larry Sword wrote:
> Benjamin Sher wrote:
> >
> > Dear friends:
> >
> > I am about to buy a 20.4 gig hardrive for my AMD K6-2 400 Mhz and LM
> > 8.0. I would appreciate your professional advise. I am considering
> > buying it from TigerDirect. The Seagate 20.4 HD has a "Seek time" of
> > 8.9, a transfer rate of 100MB/s an rpm of 5400, a buffer of 512 and 3
>
> The Ultra ATA/100 @ 5400 RPM will not give you much improvement with
> your present motherboard and onboard ide controller.
> You might want to look at a drive with 7200 RPM which would give some
> speed boost.
> IBM, or Maxtor; I've had good success with these.
> LM 8.0 will have no problem handling a 20.4 Gig drive assuming that your
> motherboard and BIOS supports drives of this size.
> A 20 Gig 7200 RPM drive goes for about $79-89 here in San Diego, but
> then we have an extremely competitive market.
>
> > years warranty for $74. I am not concerned about whether it's the state
> > of the art. My AMD K6-2 is already an antique. But I am concerned about
> > reliability and performance. And, most of all, I would like to know
> > whether LM 8.0 can handle a 20.4 Gig hard drive in the first place.
> >
> > I would appreciate your opinions.
> >
> > Thanks so much.
> >
> > Benjamin
> >
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