On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Dido Sevilla wrote:
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>
> Gosh, so I really am incredibly lucky. When I decided to buy a new
> computer early this year I got my hands on a 13.6GB Seagate Barracuda
> (ST313620A) to go along with my EPoX G2 motherboard... Wondered why I
> couldn't find any more when we were buying computers for the cafe.
>
Yah, there are two (2) urban legends concerning the scarcity of IDE
Barracuda drives that I've heard:
1) Seagate ran out of crapola Medalist drives so they changed the logic
boards on a bunch of SCSI Barracuda's and sold them as ATA drives
2) there's a tremendous heating problem with the Barracuda ATA (since
if you look at SCSI Barracuda's they have strict cooling requirements
which an end-user machine might not necessarily have) so Seagate
pulled the Barracuda ATA from the market
(1) seems believable because if you look at the physical construction of
the Barracuda ATA it is similar to the SCSI Barracuda. Very solid, unlike
the crapola "metal tape around the clamshell" construction of the Medalist
drives. A friend of mine bought a Medalist and it developed bad sectors
after just one day of operation.
(2) is also believable because ALL SCSI Barracuda's I've seen require
certain cooling parameters which an end-user regular-Joe machine might not
be able to handle. They do get really hot. However (2) is more likely
because Seagate has released a new 50GB Barracuda..
However Maxtor has released a new 40GB DiamondMax (that's right, FORTY
gigabytes). I saw it in Greenhills for PhP 16,000 (at NexGen). Pretty
cheap. It's also faster than the fastest Barracuda ATA (although only
slightly).
p.s. for the SMP fans out there. The supply of ABIT BP6 main boards seems
to be unstable, but NexGen has 'em in stock again (at least as of
yesterday).
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