On Saturday 18 May 2002 10:11 pm, you wrote:
> IBM
>
> I just bought 4 more from : http://www.mwave.com
>
> I currently have at least a dozen modern IBM HDs spinning 24x7 here.
>
> I've never had a problem with any of them. They're real fast with or
> without raid. hdparm reported >35MB/s throughput with Mandrake 8.2, 40 GB
> IBM 7200RPM, stock kernel and no hdparm settings. This was with a Tyan 2460
> and dual Athlon MP1600+.
>
> I have had seagate, maxtor, and western digital drives fail. :-(
Ditto. I've got v8.2 running on a 60 gig/7200rpm IBM Deskstar, and I get that
same kind of performance....in fact, everytime I messed with Hdparm, the
performance went down - just goes to show, if it ain't broke, don't fix it!
<grin>
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