Re: [Plug] Partitioning advice

[Michelle Weber <umweber@mcs.drexel.edu>]

I have the Diamondmax 20.4 gig 7200 rpm drive for a few months now, and
I've had no problems with it at all, it makes my computer quite fast
actually (compared to the 4 year old 1.6 gig drive i had in there)

-- 
Michelle Weber
umweber@mcs.drexel.edu


On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, Mental wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 28, 1999 at 03:27:31PM -0500, Jack Wilkinson wrote:
> > I just got a DiamondMax Sunday, 13.6gb (at $120 it was a steal), and
> > have had a few problems since then.  The HD shut down the first few times I
> > was running the system (stopped working mid-flight), but that's subsided
> > somewhat since then (I guess it's like a green engine in a car).
> > 
> > maybe it was just mine or the crappy MB that I have.
> > 
> 
> I guess I'm just wired weird. I'd rather have speed than space. 
> Currently I have a 9.1G 10K rpm seagate cheetah drive. I picked it up
> shortly after it came out. It was my final break away from ide drives.
> I guess its just a mindset. The next drive I'm getting is an 18G 
> cheetah. Of course that'll be for my next box. I just helped a friend
> of mine put together a dual P2 450. I think I need one :) Prices were
> pretty good. Maybe when I get my tax return.... :)
> 
> I guess what I'm saying is, a while back I was confronted with the 
> choice of the larger, cheaper solution or the smaller, faster solution.
> If it was a system I didnt have to use every day I probably would have
> gone IDE. I'm very glad I didnt.
> 
> Mental
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> 
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> --Helcat on the subject of Mental.
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