I've got a 500meg. Fujitsu with a four or five year old installation of
Red Hat on it. It was slow as hell, but reliable.
Try the 13gig. IBMs. They seem to be pretty good.
-----Original Message-----
From: David Krings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 1999 1:27 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [OT] build a Linux box for $800
Hi again !
Seems to be interesting to many people, i myself had for my
private puters
in the last years 2x 1.2 GB Maxtor drives, both crashed heavily within a
year (and of them is the one Maxtor says i never sent in). Best shot
was
killing a Maxtor drive by plugging in the IDE cable (without a notch
though) upside down, i know i shouldn't do that, but any other drive
didn't
go on strike after sth like that. Now i have an IBM 6.4 GB DHAE that
runs
smoothly since the first spin-off and a 3.2 GB Fujitsu together with an
old
1.2 GB Connor which is about 6 years old now. Inbetween i had also
Seagate
and WD and was happy with both brands / types. But in case of purchasing
another drive i'd only go for IBM, not the cheapest, but fast and
reliable
IMHO.
Hmmm, seems as IBM won by points, hehe.
Greez
Dave
>At Mon, 15 Nov 1999 11:02:24 -0800, you wrote
>>I have one machine with 4 maxtor drives and 2 others with 2 each. My
son has
>>2 in his machine and my daughter has 2. I will not use any drive but
Maxtor.
>>I have had problems with WD, Seagate and Quantum.
>
>I haven't had many problems with Western Digital, but the one's I've
had have
>been catastrophic. _Two_ of them crashed Egypt-Air style a few years
ago,
for
>no obvious reason. I don't know if the drives killed the MB or vice
versa,
>but I ended up replacing all three.
>
>There's a currently recall on a variety of WD drives. Let's just say
I'm
>reluctant to buy WD these days. I buy IBM at work, and Maxtor for
home.
>
>
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