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From: jc58+@andrew.cmu.edu (Johnny J. Chin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: IDE HDs > 177MB
Message-ID: <Ybh9VPe00Wc1E2MvBn@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: 10 Feb 91 00:48:27 GMT
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In my opinion, from a few years of experience with IDEs:

Conner is "cream of the crop" on all of their IDE drives except the 20MB.
I have several of these (including 8 of the 208MB one) running at various
client sites.  As for the 8 208MB IDE Conners, they are in a Compaq SystemPro
running all day long, 7-days a week for the past 6 months.  No problems.  Not
to mention, this of course is a server.

MiniScribe ... in a worse I've used.  They work most of the time as a single
drive, but if you daisy-chain two of them, they fail intermittantely.

Seagate ... if all of you don't know, is one of the BIGGEST hard drive
manufacturer.  They brought out Imprimis (which use to be CDC).  And I also
heard that they took over Microscience.  In general, Seagate is good for the
price.  The WREN series (use to Imprimis) is very good.  The original
Seagate is average, not as great.


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