[Scottish] hard drives

[Graeme Boyd]

Hi,

Have a look on Storage Review.  They have exhaustive reviews of most of 
the hard disks on the market.  Last time I checked the Western Digital 
were fastest but the Seagate drives were considerably quieter.

http://www.storagereview.com/
http://www.storagereview.com/articles/200301/20030110ST3120023AS_1.html

Regards,

Graeme


On Tuesday, January 28, 2003, at 10:22  pm, Neil Sinclair wrote:

> Hi -
>
> I'm just about to buy a new hard drive, and I've been hearing horrible 
> stories
> about Maxtor (cheap but icky) and IBM (just flaky for 2 drive models, 
> other
> more recent models seem ok).
>
> I'm tempted by Western Digital (WD800JB - 80Gb, 8Mb buffer, 7200rpm) 
> who I've
> alway found reliable, and by the Seagate iv series -
>
> Main apps are audio processing (audacity) and simple office stuff, odd 
> bit of
> html and Delphi.
>
> Any info / experience would be welcome before I part with my 
> hard-earned cash!
>
> regards,
>
> Neil.
>
>
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