Hi. > > >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. > > > > 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... > ______________________________ > 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. ************************************ 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)