[Discussion] Selecting a hard drive

[Thomas Clayton]

To All:

And here I am about to 'goto' 9.1 GB W UF SCSI HDDs. I don't know
/what/ 
I'm going to do with /all/ that space! ;-)

Tom Clayton

P.S.: Good luck to James C going to SATA drives. I'll listen in but the

SATA 150 controller in my newest system will go UNused for some time.

bokeny at earthlink.net wrote:
> I have an Asus A7V333 mother board in a full tower with 400w  power
> supply.  This computer has two 9GB IBM SCSI and four Western Digital
IDE
> or EIDE 30-40GB hard drives.  I would like to replaces them with two
> ~200GB hard drives.  (One for mirroring)   Besides the SCSI and IDE
> there are many prefixes to hard drive now that make no sense to me. 
I
> don't think I can afford SCSI, so I need recommendation to the
> alternatives. I have 20-30 WD hard drives from 250MB to 20GB.  This
came
> from replacing drive do to capacity at the place I used to work. 
None
> was replaced due to failure.  (Luck of the Hungarians :-))  I am open
> for brand names if everyone hates WD.
> 
> --
> Zoltan Bokeny 
> bokeny at earthlink dot net
> Fayetteville, North Carolina
> 
> I will not shop at "Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. of China"!




       
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