On Sunday, October 28, 2001, at 03:43 pm, Gander wrote:
> After searching around a bit, I've been looking at this particular drive
> :
> IBM 60GB Deskstar 60GXP UA100 8.5ms 2MB 7200rpm.
> These can be had for about $130. (The price range was anywhere from $130
> to
> $170 with *wildly* different shipping prices.)
> Any opinions on this model vs. something else? My G4 stock drive is also
> an
> IBM drive.
My friend always fits IBM Deskstars to his computers (he has 3 now AFAIK).
They are good, solid and fast. I don't think you'll do much better myself.
YMMV.
One is in our server and gets well thrashed, it's still going strong after
over a year of use an abuse.
FWIW I have a 10GB drive in my G3 (which seems to be holding out) and feel
a little cramped. Trouble is, adding a Deskstar 40GB or 60GB would involve
doing silly things like buying an ATA/66 card. I can't afford the drive,
never mind it and the card. :(
I can't even add a slave to it! As it is my stock 6GB Quantum is on loan
to a friend who put Windows XP on it.
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