Monster IDE Drives

[Leon Goldstein]

Net Llama! wrote:

> Just to make you old timers feel really old.  My first computer's HD 
> (not counting the Commodore 128 which didn't have a HD) with a 256MB 
> in my IBM 486-DX2-50.

My first HD was a 20 mb Seagate I paid a fortune to have installed in my 
Kaypro PC.  The thing sounded like a food processor.
I bought a quiet PS from PC Power & Cooling, who at that time also sold 
a very quiet 30 mb Fuji RLL drive.  The PS and Fuji quieted down the 
noisy Kaypro.  After a series of disasterous Miniscribe (ndb Maxtor) 40 
mb RLL drives I bought an 8-bit IDE interface card and a WD 85 mb 
drive.  Kaypro and WD drive are still working.

Geting back to Kurt's original quesion: I have two WD "jumbo" 80 GB 
drives employed at the moment.  Hook these suckers up to an ATA100 
system and enjoy - >45 mps.  You can enable the drive's SMART with 
smartmontools (smartmontools.sourceforge.net.)
There is an article about this HD monitoring app in the Jan 2004 Linux 
Journal.

-- 
Leon A. Goldstein

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