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From: tgoose@eng.umd.edu (Jason Garms)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Looking for a 130MB IDE Drive
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Date: 12 Jun 91 00:13:39 GMT
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In article <IDB.91Jun10200649@tw800.eng.cam.ac.uk>, idb@eng.cam.ac.uk (Ian Braithwaite) writes:
> I'm looking to buy a 100+ MB ide hard drive, and have come up with a
> couple of low cost alternatives.
> 
> a) Seagate ST1144A	(A lot of bad things seem to get said about
>    130MB, 17ms		 Seagate drives)
> and
> b) Maxtor 7120A		(Havn't heard anything about these)
>    130MB, 15ms, 32K cache
> 
> Both are available in the UK for around 300 pounds.
> 
> If anyone has any good or bad stories about either of these, I'd
> be interested to hear them.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ian (idb@eng.cam.ac.uk)

I have played with the Maxtor 40 and 80 MB IDE drives.  They are _very_ fast
and quiet.  To be fairly untechincal,  they are great!

(I'm biased against Seagate drives so I wont say anything about them.  However,
their Wren line and Imprimis Line are great!)

Jason Garms
tgoose@eng.umd.edu