On 30 Nov 98, at 19:52, John Petrush wrote:
> Western Digital has been in the drive biz for a long time and they do it
> well. I have WD drives in all my computers and (knock on wood) never had a
> disk failure. If you can break down and reassemble an OM-1, you can install
> a WD drive :). They are not the fastest, or highest capacity, just
good equipment at a fair price.
>
Based on my experiences over the past decade or so, WD are ok, but
nothing special. They have had a few duds over the years (some of the early
caviar drives), but so have most companies. For a decent low end drive, I
have found Fujitsu to be very good, having spec'd them on bulk orders (about
150 total) 3 years running and had one failure that I can recall in that time.
For high end SCSI drives, Seagate is excellent, our servers currently run
their 10,000 rpm Cheetah drives and have yet to miss a beat (alas, Zuiko has
to make do with an old Micropolis...).
Beware of the 8Gb+ drives with many PCs and OS - many machines will not
address beyond 8Gb without a BIOS upgrade, and NT 4.0 requires a hotfix
also. Of course we are talking IDE drives here, SCSI is not a problem. I
haven't tried win9x, nor do I plan to, nor should anyone... If you need that
much space, you need a real OS *first* (IMHO :-)
Sorry to continue this OT thread, but before you rush out and buy that 10-14
GB drive, be prepared for some driver updates, and have a good backup!
Shawn & Janis Wright
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