Michael Lueck wrote:
> On Wed, 01 Nov 2000 19:24:02 -0500, Romanator wrote:
>
> >What would be the most preferable hard drive to install in your computer
> >or does it matter?
>
> I've been building PC's for clients for 13 years now - and the past few years
> I've used IBM drives in both workstations (IDE - DeskStar) and in servers (SCSI
> - UltraStar). To date, I've had one drive crash out of MANY.
>
> To compare that, a large client switched to Dell, which uses a mix. Quite a few
> have the HDD crash when the PC is around a month old, and of those that crash
> all were WestenDigital (WesternCrapital in my mind)
>
> Before IBM I was using Fujitsu - it took so long for new drive models to get
> here from Japan that at times they would get here and ship them back as they
> could not sell them in the USA for the price they wanted to get for them. As
> well, tech support was hard to contact in those days. I heard that it changed
> after I quit using them.
>
> As well, a few years with Quantum. They actually had to buy some drives back
> once as they did not have enough media to repair the drive. Quite a few times
> it seemed they were pusing the technology envelope too hard, and new ideas were
> flops at my expense.
>
> Maxtor as much as I have used them were good middle of the road drives - not
> had to contact tech support so I don't know how they are.
>
> Seagate - I used them for Cheetah's before IBM got their 10K RPM drives out,
> not bad but noisier than IBM. And when you sit next to a server w/ RAID 5 it
> makes a difference. I hated the high pitch screem. That server is now sold and
> history!
>
> So, the order
>
> IBM
> Maxtor
> Seagate
> Quantum
> Fujitsu
> None!
> WD (WC)
>
> <g>
>
> Some of your other issues might be related to other compents of your hardware -
> motherboard, BIOS, IDE chip, etc... I had a couple of BCM/GVC motherboards -
> 440BX chip set, they were a pain about drives over 8GB.
>
> I had an IWill 440BX board, it using Mandrake 7.0 could only see 8GB of a 9GB
> drive.
>
> Currently I have a SuperMicro board - a rare 820 chip with DIMM and the famous
> MTH chip. Knock on wood it has been very solid with a 20GB ATA66 IBM DeskStar -
> and dual boots using Power Boot between Win2K and Mandrake 7.1. The only trick
> was to partition with Linux, and set the Extended partition to type F so that
> Win2K could install FAT32 out to the end of the drive. I use FAT32 as I
> developed my own imaging technology using InfoZip and some other tools. Someday
> I will tackle NTFS imaging.
>
> All the best! (And that means hardware too) To heck with the over clocking
> folks who do strange things with strange hardware. I stick to the middle of the
> road with cool hardware - and have just enough problems to keep life
> interesting. <g>
>
> Michael Lueck
> Lueck Data Systems
> http://www.lueckdatasystems.com/
Hi Michael,
Thanks for responding. I will try and find a Maxtor that is under 8 Gig. It seems
the 10 Gig. cannot get configured. I read that Dell had only tested the XPS MMX as
high as 8 Gig.
--
Roman
Registered Linux User #179293
