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From: mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir)
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Subject: Re: Looking for a 130MB IDE Drive
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Date: 12 Jun 91 18:05:20 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)

Without any other knowledge of these drives, I would definitely get the Maxtor!

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