So should I switch to Debian ... (TID)

[Leon Goldstein]

Tim Wunder wrote inter alia:

>Someday I'll buy one of 
>them big honkin' hard drives and give myself some play partitions.
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If your system(s) support ATA 66 or 100, I can recommend a Western 
Digital "Jumbo" drive with the 8 MB cache.
Seagate also offers a lne of drives with 8 MB cache, but I have not seen 
any reviews about these yet.
I have two WD "Jumbos" in my boxes, and a third  waiting to be installed 
in my "lab rat."

Hdparm reports 38-42 mps on my ATA 66 Celeron box, and 48-52 mps on my 
P4 box.  Both have a WD 80 GB "Jumbo" installed.

There have been in the past some critical comments about WD drives,  but 
I have never had one fail on me yet.
My first PC, a Kaypro, has a WD 85 MB (connected to an 8-bit(!) IDE 
interface card) and it still works.

-- 
Leon A. Goldstein

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