Thank you to all who responded to this. It has been informative & helpful.
John
Shawn Wright wrote:
> 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
> swright@xxxxxxxxx
> http://Zuiko.sls.bc.ca/~swright
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