[geeks] HD data recovery recommendations?

Bill Bradford mrbill at mrbill.net
Sat Apr 10 00:43:57 CDT 2004


On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 12:21:42AM -0500, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Bill Bradford wrote:
> > So, who makes the best 7200RPM, 8meg-cache 3.5" ATA100 drives nowdays?
> Western Digital Special Edition.  Beware, though, they've cut their
> warranty to 1 year, unless you pay $15 to get the warranty upgraded to
> their old 3-year warranty.

That's what I had in the old ohno - worked great.

> Well, it depends on what your chains look like.  If the big drive will
> be sharing the ATA bus with something else, SATA will probably be
> faster.

Nope, single HD on the master chain, and the CD-ROM/DVD-ROMs have their
own bus.

Bill

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bill bradford
mrbill at mrbill.net
austin, texas



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