Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3996 mails)

[Chuck Stuettgen <cstuettgen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 06:45, Rikard Johnels wrote:
> On Thursday 02 September 2004 09.58, John Andersen wrote:
> > On Wednesday 01 September 2004 09:14 pm, marcia wrote:
> > > Dear All,
> > >
> > > Does anyone know if an IBM/HITACHI 120 GB 7200 RPM ATA100 120GXP hard
> > > drive would be compatible with  Suse 8.2 pro on my Athlon xp 1600+? I
> > > have an IBM deskstar that is 60 gigs and I have almost filled it up. I
> > > want to add another hard drive as a slave since I have the slot for it.
> > > Any advice or suggestions will be greatly appreciated. I want my new one
> > > to be happy with my IBM deskstar and to have at least 120 GB.
> > >
> > > Thanks for any help.
> > >
> > > Sincerely,
> > >
> > > Marcia*
> > > *
> >
> > IMHO the Deskstars are some of the best drives I've ever seen.
> >
> > I see no reason why a 120 would not work in a machine of that
> > vintage.
> > Slap it in and see what yast can do with it.  If you put it in
> > as a slave on the same controller it should show up as
> > hdb.
> >
> > Just make sure you don't get a SATA model drive.
> 
> And then again.. 
> A friend of mine is a data recovery expert.
> The nickname of the IBM Deskstar is... Deathstar, as it has the tendency of 
> just dying on you wo. prior warning. 
> He recommended me to exchange mine for something other then the Deskstar.
> And i myself had the "fun" job to do to recover a friends 120G drive of that 
> exact brand.
> 
> So i look for other drives than the IBM Deskstar as i go for new ones.
> 
> Now i KONW this probably gonna start a flamewar over "I have one and it has 
> worked for years", and that is probably all fine and nice.
> Two things on it tho..
> 1. I just gave my 2 cents worth of experience of the drive
> and 
> 2. Keep the probably upcoming OT flamewar off the list.
> 
> 
I can't comment on IBM/Hitachi desktop drives, have been too afraid to
try them as we have had more than a dozen of their laptop drives fail in
the last year all of which were less than a year old, some failed on
laptops that were only two months old.  Most of them failed without any
warning at all.  I have been replacing them with Toshiba drives and so
far everything has been good and they are much quieter.  

As for desktop/server drives stay far far away from anything Western
Digital. 

For IDE/SATA I use Seagate or Maxtor.  For SCSI, I use Seagate or
Fujitsu.  
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Chuck Stuettgen <cstuettgen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
http://www.cfs-tech.homelinux.net