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Little TeaPot wrote:
>
> My Hitachi is still faster, in most areas.
>
> My Hitachi, yes i liked it so much i bought the company
Hello,
Actually, Hitachi loved IBM hard drives so much, it bought Big Blue's
commodity HDD division! <g>
Cordially,
John Turco <jtur@concentric.net>
> On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 13:35:28 GMT, "S.Heenan" <sheenan@wahs.ac> wrote:
>
> >Little TeaPot wrote:
> >> On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 02:24:11 GMT, "Kevin C." <nomail@fake.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> "S.Heenan" <sheenan@wahs.ac> wrote in message
> >>> news:W6X2d.41366$%S.29954@pd7tw2no...
> >>>> WD or Seagate are the only two brands I use. I too have seen a
> >>>> number of dead Maxtor hard drives in the past 18 months, all 120GiB
> >>>> in size or larger.
> >>>>
> >>>> Seagate now has a 5 year warranty and are very quiet during idle
> >>>> and even read operations.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> Seconded. I bought a Seagate 160GB SATA and it's virtually silent
> >>> during idle -- can't hear it over 24dbA fans. It does make a little
> >>> noise during operations but nothing out of the ordinary. The 5 year
> >>> warranty is insane -- one of the reasons why I went with Seagate.
> >>> They also have a good suite of drive utilities available on their
> >>> site. The drive formatter especially is much faster than
> >>> Microsoft's, which is quite helpful when formatting 160 gigs and it
> >>> gives you an easier way to control specifics like partitioning and
> >>> cluster sizes.
> >
> >> Still a slow drive compared to a Hitachi SATA
> >>
> >> And mine is quieter and with a 3 year warranty.
> >
> >
> >Slower in what way ? In benchmarks do you mean ? Given a double blind test,
> >I can not see how speed differences can be appreciated.