[rescue] HD recommendations

G W Adkins rescue at sunhelp.org
Tue Jun 19 08:41:45 CDT 2001


> Oh come on,
>     With SCSI, you have to go Seagate, they almost always have the fastest
> drives on the market the most rapidly (They were the first with 7200,
10000,
> and 15000 rpm drives as I recall), and I have never had one fail.

Yeah, they also have those drives thicker (1.6"), pricier, noisier and
hotter than IBM's equivalently sized drive released 3-9 months later.

If you want cutting edge, yeah, go seagate.
If you want reliable, cool, quiet, low-profile commodity drives, go IBM.

George




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