On 19:14, Thu 03 Nov 05, Stephen Patterson wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, 03 Nov 2005 17:10:49 +0100, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > If you have an 80GB ATA disk that you think is terrific, could you post it? > > I've had an IBM deskstar running just fine for the last 2 years. > > - -- > Stephen Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://patter.mine.nu/ GPG: E3E8E974 > Jabber: patter on jabber.earth.li MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > GMail invites to anyone who wants one > "Whoever said nothing is impossible never tried slamming a revolving door." > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFDamEtUKIGN+Po6XQRArufAJ4g2wwg/nAsiTSU9JqlsMIfn8n8WQCfWzlu > WB7JcSEiVLAu8NdP+Lx5wBg= > =567v > -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Is their any reason that you must have an 80 gig hard drive? You can pick up a larger drive for about the same cost as some 80 gig drives. To answer your direct question I have used a Samsung 80 gig drive with Windows without any problems. But I must say I also have a Seagate 120 gig, and a Maxtor 120 gig I would take the Seagate over the Maxtor just because it has a 5 year warranty. In fact the Seagate has only seen Gnu/Linux and *BSD's It was formated with the Debian installer has never seen any Windows code if that makes any difference, its also very easy on the ears. Saying that I must say that it has a easy life, my machine's seem to be on 24/7 with good cooling. It crunches RC5-72 and really does not get a good workout. On the other hand my Samsung drive is pretty good, its in a desktop case, the temp according to speedfan are in the 67 degree C range has poor cooling, hot to the touch enough to burn you and has been in that situation for over a year. Samsung usually has a three year warranty, and is very good, mine is the 2 mb buffer cheap version. All these drives are the ATA version's but I would recommend the Seagates, and the Samsung to anyone, Maxtor has been touch and go with me I had a 60 gig drive fail a couple of years ago. I am sure everyone has a story about _insert drive manufacture here_ failures. So to keep it simple I would go for the drive which has the longest warranty, I think that Seagate fits that bill. So shop around and find the best deal, and warranty for your drive. Just remember to backup all vital important data, that way if a drive fails you will not have lost any important data. Or in other words GOT BACKUP! Gnu_Raiz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
