On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 01:42, Kenneth Culver wrote: > 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?
I haven't had any trouble with the WDxxxBB drives - the WDxxxAA drives are pretty unreliable though. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
