Intel 875PBZ, anyone?

OK and Thank You to Strontium,Guess Who,and Adrian :-)
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Adrian wrote:
:: Except for the poor choice of hard drives....hehe
:
: Why are they a poor choice? I'm interested to see why. Fluid
: bearings, S-ATA interface, 8MB cache, 7,200RPM, 120GBs - am I missing
: something?
:
: ~ Adrian ~
:

Oh, don't mind ZOD and his annoying "hehe." He's been posting brainless
posts for years, and definitely hasn't a clue.

J.

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I didn't choose them for speed performance, because there is no
speed/performance benefit with SATA at the moment. I chose them for
system
performance, so my Hard drives are not co-mingled with my CDRW/DVD
burners.

Who said I was referring to the interface?
Hehe..........

Oh, don't mind ZOD and his annoying "hehe." He's been posting brainless
posts for years, and definitely hasn't a clue.

As if you did....rofl

I know any drive is subject to data loss of the whole drive. That's isn't
what I was referring to. I am referring to a RAID array getting screwed and
losing everything. I prefer to work on separate drives. for simplicity's
sake.

"ZOD" wrote in message
rthlink.net...
| Lets, see.....
|
| UH...you are obviously unaware of the whole data loss thing. Partitions
| won't save your data in a failure.......hehe
|
|

BigA:

ZoD is off his meds again ........

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Adrian wrote:

Except for the poor choice of hard drives....hehe


Why are they a poor choice? I'm interested to see why. Fluid bearings,
S-ATA interface, 8MB cache, 7,200RPM, 120GBs - am I missing something?

~ Adrian ~

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ZoD is off his meds again ........

"Why do you say this to me when you know I will kill you for it?"
Hehe..........

The only drives I ever had trouble with were Western Digital Drives. Three
of them just died after short usage. My very first PC, a 486SX 25Mhz, came
with an 80 MEGABYTE WD Caviar, which failed after two weeks. Another 540MB
drive died the same way, and a 20GB drive I bought to put in my sister's PC
suffered the same fate. They all exhibited the same behavior, they would
spin up then stop.I'd have to violently shake the drives as they were
spinning up to get them to "catch" (for lack of a better word) The drives
would work until the PC was shut off. At least I was able to get the data
off the drives.


Using your logic, I can say that ALL WD drives are garbage. because you may
have had a problem with Seagate, doesn't make all Seagate drives bad. How
many companies would send you TWO hard drives free of charge? That's what
Seagate did for me when I complained about the non-availability of the SATA
drives. The product manager graciously sent me 2 60GB SATA drives - for
nothing.

I was always partial toward Maxtor. I never had a problem with the 8 or 9
Maxtor drives I've purchased over the years, but since Seagate was first to
market with the SATA drives, and since they did send me two drives, I am
using the Seagate drives, for 7 months now, without incident.

"ZOD" wrote in message
rthlink.net...
| what I was referring to. I am referring to a RAID array getting screwed
| and
| losing everything. I prefer to work on separate drives. for
simplicity's
|
| Well....I'd be worried too with a Seagate...hehe
|
|

Using your logic, I can say that ALL WD drives are garbage. because you
may
have had a problem with Seagate, doesn't make all Seagate drives bad. How

WDC make the best IDE drives out there period!
I can't even remember how many Seagates I have seen and heard failing
(countless old MFM/RLL drives..hehe).
Seagate does not equal reliability although they have improved....hehe

I was always partial toward Maxtor. I never had a problem with the 8 or 9
Maxtor drives I've purchased over the years, but since Seagate was first
to
market with the SATA drives, and since they did send me two drives, I am
using the Seagate drives, for 7 months now, without incident.

I am OK with Maxtor....but the latest 1yr warranty limit doesn't exactly
inspire confidence...hehe

In article ,
Guess Who wrote:
| The only drives I ever had trouble with were Western Digital Drives. Three
| of them just died after short usage. My very first PC, a 486SX 25Mhz, came
| with an 80 MEGABYTE WD Caviar, which failed after two weeks. Another 540MB
| drive died the same way, and a 20GB drive I bought to put in my sister's PC
| suffered the same fate. They all exhibited the same behavior, they would
| spin up then stop.I'd have to violently shake the drives as they were
| spinning up to get them to "catch" (for lack of a better word) The drives
| would work until the PC was shut off. At least I was able to get the data
| off the drives.

This is a problem known as sticktion, in which a drive binds at start,
but once running is fine. I ran several drives like that for some years
without incident (system was up for about 700 days), and other than
having to rock the tower from side to dis to get a spin-up, they worked
flawlessly.

Needless to say I did not have the spin down on idle feature enabled.

Other than some issues with the early 420/540MB drives, I haven't had
issues with WD, and prompt replacement kept me from being overly upset.
I am quite good (ie. paranoid) about backups, so I was never bitten
beyond inconvenience.

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