Now hard drives too. Re: Modern floppy disk question...

[Roger Merchberger]

Rumor has it that Jim Leonard may have mentioned these words:
>Joe R. wrote:
>>    You may be right but I THOUGHT it was Fujitsu. Whatever it was, it's
>>working fine. It's already outlasted several Maxtors and Seagates. I just
>>checked the device manager and it says that it's an IBM drive so it doesn't
>>identify the actual manufacturer.
>
>IBM drives are most definitely Hitachi.

Yup... run 'em for years.

>   And that being said, IBM/Hitachi drives are the only drives I've never 
> had fail on me.

Like so many others... depends on which drives... ;-)

I've had great luck with the TravelStars and UltraStars... but the 
Death^WDeskStars I tend to avoid; Altho they're not as bad as some drives 
I've used, I've not had quite as good luck with them as Western Digital.

>   I run them in mirrors: 2 75GXP 30GB, 2 120GB, 2 180GB... not a single 
> failure and the 75GXPs are going on 5 years now.  And they're fast!!

I was amazed -- I have a 40G TravelStar in an external Firewire case, I'd 
intended it for just backup / "quasi-online" storage (stuff I wouldn't need 
fast or often) but it was less than 10% slower than the internal WD 30G 
drive I had - more than fast enough to use for "normal use" so I do! It was 
a very nice surprise... ;-)

If I had the cash, I'd replace the 4200rpm Toshiba drive in my laptop with 
one of those slickety-neato 7200rpm Hitachi drives... but alas, I don't.

[[ I do, however, think I can talk the wifey in into an IDE interface for 
my CoCo finally... I happen to have a NOS IDE 2.2G Castlewood removable 
drive that I think would be *schweetness* with that... ;-) ]]

Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger

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