Author: Richard Pijl
Date: 06:37:47 03/09/04
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>>I don't have SCSI disks. Just plain 7200rpm IDE disks (IBM Deskstar). > >Wow, you use IBM Deathstars? I've heard nothing but bad things about them >(crashes/lost data). > >anthony I've absolutely no problems with them. In my current box there are two, one 7200rpm that I use for tablebases (now about two years old), and a 5400rpm disk that is about 4-5 years old (don't remember exactly). Before that, I also used IBM's and one 7 year old disk is still running (in the pc of my kids). As I use them quite a lot, I think that is quite good. I also built some PC's for relatives (brother, father, father-in-law) all with IBM disks and no problems at all. I heard there was a bad batch of IBM disks some time ago, but I didn't have those problems. In general I'm very satisfied with them. They're relatively fast and quiet. Richard.
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