I have Ultra-66 onboard, and just picked up a promise ATA-100 Controller.  I
like the IBM's for their speed and reliability, but this one dying bothers
me.  It spins at 7200rpm, like the barracuda and maxtor, and has an 8.5 seek
time like the maxtor.  The seagate's seek time is 8.2 .  I read way too much
about the stuff I but, can you tell?  lol :)
Thanks for the tip though, I'm going to buy one of each and run some
benchmarks, return the slower drive.  (I have a friend in the store I shop
at :) )

Cheers



> At 04:15 AM 11/7/2000 -0500, you wrote:
> >Actually, lets change Deskstar to Seagate Barracuda, as the IBM drive
died
> >on me today, a mere 3-4 days old.  Not very promising to say the least.
> >
> >Cheers.
>
>
> I have a Seagate Barracuda 28 GB and I would advise you to get a Maxtor
> Diamond Plus Pro ULTRA 100 30 or 40 GB and run it on a ULTRA 66
controller.
> The Maxtor blows the Barracuda away!
>
> Mark Rode
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