> You might want to give that a bit of thought. IBM, while producing OK > scsi disks, has had a really terrible headache getting reliability into > their IDE products. Additionally, IBM just sold their entire hard disk > product line to some other company. I don't know if that had anything to > do with their well-publicized IDE reliability problems or not, but I'd > fight shy of any IBM IDE disks, in any app which requires any kind of > stability. > > If you don't care about reliability, tho, there are some good deals I've > seen on those disks, tho ... being dumped in mass cheaply. Again, this > has nothing to do with their scsi disks, which are just fine. > I'd probably steer clear of the western digital drives as well. Yes the 8MB cache that some of them have DOES make a difference, but from personal experience, the drives themselves don't last that long. So in short, what good is a fast hard-drive if it's just going to break faster too?
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