[geeks] HD recommendations

[Will Mc Donald]

IBM GXPs are widely held to be the best available IDE disks. 7200rpm, ~8ms
access time (I know, it's shockingly slow compared to U160 but you get what
you pay for), come in 20 - 80 GB sizes.

See www.storagereview.com for more info.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Bradford" <mrbill at mrbill.net>
To: <geeks at mrbill.net>; <rescue at mrbill.net>
Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 8:27 PM
Subject: [geeks] HD recommendations


> I'm going to be upgrading the HD (currently one 4G and one 9G) to
> one large (20 or 40gig) in ohno (aka sunhelp.org) soon.  I need
> opinions - I'm leaning towards the IBM stuff (IDE of course).
>
> Suggestions?  Cheap places to find them? (other than pricewatch)
>
> Bill