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www.storagereview.com is pretty good

OscarWilde

Wed Oct 17 10:53:40 2001

www.storagereview.com is pretty good
HitScan

Wed Oct 17 13:40:28 2001

Yes. I always check with them before building a new computer. The Western Digital drives I bought are second only to some IBM's in speed, which I found Good Enough(tm). :D (that, and I was 'avoiding' IBM stuff during that whole CRHM or whatever copy protection thing they were involved in was still going)

I just wish it was a little easier to pick and choose drives for the custom database comparison stuff. It's killer, once you figure out how it works.

Socrates

Wed Oct 17 19:55:08 2001

Eugene has a new test, IPeak, that copies a 'trace' of your
computer usage, then replays it.

So, you could come up with a test pattern of your own usage,
play it on the same machine, and come up with the actual
feel of how your machine would be with that drive.

They do use some pretty weird tests, like Winbench 99, which pretty much says, rank drives in order of cache size,
and you don't need to run the test...

I like i/o meter, but, the current rag is it doesn't take into account access time, sustained data transfer, buffer size, buffer optimization, and balance them out.

I've found i/o meter to give me the best comparisions
of my experience with drives, but, your results may vary.

Socrates

DuffMan

Wed Oct 17 21:55:57 2001

Yes, they are a very intelligent site. Though, I must give them some of the blame for buying IBM 75GXP hard drives which are basically made internally completely of balsa wood and break if you sneeze on them.

It's not really their fault though, because I bought them right after they came out and the evidence of their poopiness was not available yet.

Socrates

Wed Oct 17 22:28:12 2001

Have a look at the IBM 60/75 reliability survey.

It's beggining to look like it's an MSFT problem, combined with an IBM problem.

The drives work great, as long as you never turn them off.

They also have a great record, if used in macs, or, used as a D drive, not a C drive.

The thread explains it pretty well.

Motherbitch

OscarWilde

Thu Oct 18 02:21:23 2001

I have two of those IMB drives. One is lying around gather dust and was barely used because it died on my within the first week. The other one I got to replace the drive is now showing signs of the same problem. And all this on the powermac. I NEED to set the drives as Master as OS X will not boot from a slave drive. So no i can't slave the mo-fo to overcome the problem.
Fuck IBM...

Thats why i'm gonna stick a Western Digital 800BB(the one that has 2MB cache and is 7200RPM) drive in my powermac and hope for the best.

Socrates

Thu Oct 18 03:08:42 2001

OW:

I got to the place where if I buy an ide drive, it has to be a year old, proven, and reliable.

The Quantum LM is out of production, but, had the access time faster then any current ide drive, and no one has reported one failing, and I've asked a couple times.

I just bought one for 70 bucks for a 20 gig.
Drives where made in Japan, I believe.

Motherbitch