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From: charlie@wam.umd.edu (Charles William Fletcher)
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Subject: Re: Maxtor or Fujitsu?
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Date: 12 Dec 90 20:15:52 GMT
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In article <IbNbGqW00Uh_M243sx@andrew.cmu.edu> ja2f+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jinmo Ahn) writes:
>
>    Thanks to all those who have responded so helpfully to my previous
>message. 
>
>    From those responces I have narrowed down my choice for ~660 meg
>drive to Maxtor and Fujitsu.  I can get both for similar price and
>warrantee.  I will probably take the the quieter of the two, I remember
>reading somewhere Fujitsu is tad bit noisy. How quiet is Maxtor? 
>
>ja2f+@andrew.cmu.edu
>Carnegie Mellon Univ.


I don't know--the fan noise more than drowns out any hard disk noise.

The OD on the other hand...

-Charlie