Seagate to Purchase Maxtor

[Doc Shipley]

Chuck Guzis wrote:
> On 12/22/2005 at 9:29 AM Philip Pemberton wrote:
> 
> 
>>In message <200512212211200240.072AFC9B at 10.0.0.252>
>>         "Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Atasi...the list is endless.  The only drive I really, really didn't
> 
> like
> 
>>>was JTS.
>>
>>Never used a Kalok then? Those things were nasty...
> 
> 
> It's pretty surprising how many drives I don't remember because they had
> such a short working life.  JTS was one of the first Indian-made drives and
> didn't even have the industry-standard drive dimensions (was too long by
> about 1/2").   Seagate isn't infallible, either.  I have a few of the
> ST15230WC 4GB 3.5" SCSI drives.  Miserable, hot-at-as-a-pistol drives.    I
> think I still have every Conner (under 500MB) that I ever purchased.  There
> were some bright spots in other manufacturers lines--the WD 31200 Caviar
> drives were a bright spot in an otherwise dim line.   Lots of dim
> spots--the early Quantum XT-era MFM drives (e.g. 30MB)  weren't bad, but
> the Bigfoot IDE were awful, regardless of type.

   I'm trying to remember what size Conner came in the Aspen Alpine AXP 
systems.  The Alpine is a 21064 EB64+ clone with onboard NEC/Symbios 
53C810, and both of mine came with a 4200RPM Conner disk.  I *think* 1GB.

   With no other upgrades, putting in a 5400RPM Seagate got me a 20% 
overall performance boost.


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