From: Stan Jacobs (sjacobs_at_InfoAve.Net)
Date: Fri Jan 07 2000 - 11:24:24 EST
What is the deal with Seagate drives. I thought they were real good drives.
Stan Jacobs
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From: STeve Andre'[SMTP:andres_at_msu.edu]
Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2000 9:58 PM
To: THINKPAD_at_cs.utk.edu
Subject: RE: Big hard drives for ThinkPads
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-
>
>
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