Re: Good 200Gb Hard Drive for Dell8200


"Carey Frisch [MVP]" <cnfrisch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Based on my personal experience, Western Digital builds
> the finest hard drives and are silent. Maxtor and Seagate
> drives tend to be quite noisy and not as reliable as W-D.
>
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> Carey Frisch
> Microsoft MVP
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> "Steve Bird" wrote:
>
> | Thanks Carey
> | I have seen mixed reviews on Western Digital disks, many saying to use
> Seagate
> | or Maxtor
> |
> | Steve
>
I built a P3/450 system in 1999 which had a 9GB WD disk. I added a 40GB WD
disk sometime in 2001. When I retired this system in 2003, both disks were
going strong.
I replaced the P3/450 with a Dimension 4600 in the fall of 2003 because the
old system was so slow (especially after I installed SBC DSL).
The Dimension 4600 came with a 40GB WD disk. I added a 250GB WD disk
sometime in 2004 so that I could separate my data from the system. I found
that the old WD disk was a performance bottleneck because it only had a 2MB
buffer. I installed a 120GB WD disk to replace the old 40GB disk in the
spring of 2005; this device has a 9MB buffer and is far faster.

All of the replaced disks were working when I removed them, and they had
never given any trouble. I'll bet that I would have had the same results
with either of the other two makers. The days of unreliable disk makers are
past; those guys went broke.

Jim


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