From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_icanect.net)
Date: Fri Jan 07 2000 - 01:44:04 EST
IRT Hitachi in the 600E, its availability, not, i think, "spot" pricing..
even though IBM Storage Systems treats the rest of IBM the same way they treat
DELL, et al...
STeve Andre' wrote:
> Yeah, that happens from time to time. Must be "spot pricing" or something
> like that. As long as they don't use seagate drives...
>
> --STeve Andre'
> andres_at_msu.edu
>
> At 08:54 PM 1/6/2000 -0600, Greg Langham wrote:
> >FWIW -
> >
> >My 600e came with a Hitachi 10 GB drive, not and IBM. I was disappointed,
> >but it's been working fine.
> >
> >Greg
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: STeve Andre' [mailto:andres_at_msu.edu]
> >Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2000 6:11 PM
> >To: Larry Feigen - MyRealbox - Pop; THINKPAD_at_cs.utk.edu
> >Subject: Re: Big hard drives for ThinkPads
> >
> >
> >I have repeatedly heard from disk fanatics that IBM makes the best small
> >drives. Given that I haven't had any disk failures with IBM disks, but
> >have had with others, that wisdom seems to be true. I'd stick with IBM
> >stuff for your IBM machine. Thats what I plan on doing when I decide to
> >upgrade either my i 1451 or i 1480.
> >
> >--STeve Andre'
> >andres_at_msu.edu
> >
> >At 06:52 PM 1/6/2000 -0500, Larry Feigen - MyRealbox - Pop wrote:
> >>I have a 560X (which is great, by the way) with a 4GB hard drive and I need
> >>a bigger disk. From what I can see, if I'm going to do it, I might as well
> >>do it big, so I was looking for a 10GB disk. A quick look at shopper.com
> >>leads me to the "Procom" 10GB disk.
> >>
> >>Beyond that, I know nothing about the topic. Does anybody have any
> >>recommendations or warnings?
> >>
> >>-Larry-
> >
> >
-- Happy trails...** Bill Morrow ** :-) WEB page http://thinkpads.com e-mail: bill_at_thinkpads.com, penzance_at_icanect.net
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