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Hi.
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> >Western Digital drives are very good. You can't go wrong with them. The
> >6.4g is around $210 now. IBM Deskstar drives are also good, but it depends
> >on which one you can get a better price on. Don't get a Bigfoot, Seagate
> >IDE, or Fujitsu IDE. Those are my opinions. I don't have any opinions on
> >Maxtor or Quantum (non-Bigfoot) drives.
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> Gotta throw in my two cents here... I've used plenty of Seagate and
> Fujitsu drives and haven't had any problems. I'm probably one of the few
> computer builders who doesn't really have a hard drive brand
> preference--I've had good luck with all of the major brands. Except when
> Western Digital had that bad run of Caviars a while back... What a
> nightmare...
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> John Hornbuckle
>
Not wanting to argue, I agree more with first post:
-Seagate: on more than a few, I've seen low reliability on the inner tracks:
simply reading from a trusty CD, writing and again reading, there were differences
(which didn't appear on outer tracks). I wouldn't trust those Seagate's with Conner
origin.
-Fujitsu: a very strange thing was a 1 GB Fujitsu which resulted VERY slow;
switching to an identical one solved the problem.
A difficulty with disks is if you get a box of them which has fallen or got
a shock somewhere during transport; eventually all will fail. But mentioned problem
on Seagate-Conner was seen even with different boxes.
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Javier Vizcaino. Ability Electronics. [log in to unmask]
Starting point: (-1)^(-1) = -1
Applying logarithms: (-1)*ln(-1) = ln(-1)
Since ln(-1) <> 0, dividing: -1 = 1 (ln(-1) is complex, but exists)
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