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Re: [SLE] Hard Drives
- From: Carl William Spitzer IV <cwsiv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 11:12:16 -0700
- Message-id: <1113171895.5608.4.camel@xxxxxxxxxx>
On Sat, 2005-04-09 at 15:01, James Knott wrote:
> Sandy Drobic wrote:
> > Michael W Cocke wrote:
> >
> >> is a little expensive but not bad. I don't like Fujitsu at all -
> >> their handling of their screwup last year (might have been the year
> >> before - time flies) turned me off completely.
> >
> >
> > Wasn't that 3 years ago, the problem with the 20GB IDE HDDs that had to
> > be replaced in huge numbers?
>
> Three years ago, 20 GB would have been a small drive.
But mine still works its an IBM 20G 5400rpm and I have used it for
several years. I also have WD 30G and 40G.
With all the price changes on these monster drives I wonder if I should
buy now or wait until the 200G get below $100?
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> Sandy Drobic wrote:
> > Michael W Cocke wrote:
> >
> >> is a little expensive but not bad. I don't like Fujitsu at all -
> >> their handling of their screwup last year (might have been the year
> >> before - time flies) turned me off completely.
> >
> >
> > Wasn't that 3 years ago, the problem with the 20GB IDE HDDs that had to
> > be replaced in huge numbers?
>
> Three years ago, 20 GB would have been a small drive.
But mine still works its an IBM 20G 5400rpm and I have used it for
several years. I also have WD 30G and 40G.
With all the price changes on these monster drives I wonder if I should
buy now or wait until the 200G get below $100?
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