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Jim Meagher <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 26 Jul 1999 10:34:26 -0400
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Over the last few years, I have found that (in this local area) Maxtor has
consistently had a better price-per-byte ratio and they are reliable.

Jim Meagher
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----- Original Message -----
From: Uzi Paz <[log in to unmask]>



> First, I wish to thank the people who helped me with choosing the
> motherboard, and with my decission to go with Celeron.
> At last I decided to go with Celeron400A and MSI motherboard. I got a
> good offer.
> I found that the MSI is jumperless, and I consider it as a deficiency, as
I
> cannot prevent flashing the BIOS by jumpers (a good defence against
> some very harmful viruses). But beyond that, it should be an excellent
> motherboard.
>
> Now as to choosing the hard disk, I would go with typical UDMA hard
> disks 8.4 Gb, the faster ones (66Mhz) are too expensive for this
> purchase). In the past Seagate got bad reputation, and I could say that I
> would go only with IBM or WD, but I'm not sure that this is still valid.
> I can now choose between Seagate and WD, and initially I tend to go
> with WD, but wish to hear few more views.
>
> Uzi
>
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