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Either a 40 or 60 GB. But I'm not sure which one to get. The IBM 60GXP is fast but seems that it has reliablity issues. Quantum used to be reliable until they got bought out by maxtor. I have 4/10 AS died on me and they are slower the LM they replace. Seagate are pretty slow in comparison. Seems that the only choice is the WD 400BB but are those good?
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Personally, I think it's a toss up between a Seagate baracuda IV, and the Western Digital Caviar Special Edition (if you can find one).The Welsh support two teams when it comes to rugby. Wales of course, and anyone else playing England
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Actually if you buy the newer ATA133 Maxtor drives you're as likely to get a Quantum design as a Maxtor one.
Even so the older DiamondMax Plus 40's are very good drives. I have several in RAID's and they're humming right along.
Those new Maxtors also mark the introduction of Maxtors "Big Drive" initiatve that uses 48 bit addresing. This will allow drives of up to 144 PB (PetaBytes: 144 million gigs).
FYI: Promise will be updating their cards BIOS's to support 48 bit addressing as well. No dates I can release though.
The ATA133's will also be the last parallel ATA drives before the move to Serial ATA in the next generation.
With Serial ATA you will lose the ribbon and power cables in favor of a single hot-pluggable USB sized cable that'll carry both signal and power at even faster speeds:
150 mb/s in generation 1 (by 2002)
300 mb/s in generation 2 (by 2005)
Dr. MordridLast edited by Dr Mordrid; 25 January 2002, 00:55.Dr. Mordrid
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Hmm.. after downloading some divx-movies im pretty much out of hd-space.. AGAIN.
I was thinking about the Maxtor ( damn hard to write, i allways write matrox.
) ATA133-drive. Guessing 80G might be the sweetspot now. Anyone actually used one of these ?
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I just picked up a 100 GB Western Digital WD1000JB, it's a really sweet drive
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A friend of me bought one last week, it died after one dayOriginally posted by PeTe
Hmm.. after downloading some divx-movies im pretty much out of hd-space.. AGAIN.
I was thinking about the Maxtor ( damn hard to write, i allways write matrox. ) ATA133-drive. Guessing 80G might be the sweetspot now. Anyone actually used one of these ?
PeTe
. Maybe he just got a bad one 
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I keep hoping that IBM will offer a magical "trade in your crappy 45GB 75GXP's for nice not-so-noisy not-so-prone-to-self-destruct models". *sigh*
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/* Destroy your 75gxp */Originally posted by Gurm
I keep hoping that IBM will offer a magical "trade in your crappy 45GB 75GXP's for nice not-so-noisy not-so-prone-to-self-destruct models". *sigh*
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1, move your data off.
2, re partition with 3 equal size partitions
3, fill partiton one with files
4 write a batch file tp move that group of files
back & forth between partition 1 and partiton 3
5 loop till drive breaks (it won't take long)
6 run DFT & get new 60Gig 60GXP in exchange.
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WILL they actually do me an exchange of a 60GXP for my 75GXP? Seriously?
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I have had 1 do that to straight out of the box but thats not to bad since I have sold a couple of hundreds d740x models already!Originally posted by KeiFront
A friend of me bought one last week, it died after one day. Maybe he just got a bad one
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They did me when two 45 Gig 75GXPs of mine wnet out in one week.Originally posted by Gurm
WILL they actually do me an exchange of a 60GXP for my 75GXP? Seriously?
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They sent me back 2 60 GIG 60 GXPs.
I didn't ask or anything either.
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PS They have to use 60 Gigs because there is no 45 Gig 75GXPLast edited by cjolley; 25 January 2002, 08:57.Chuck
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I just bought Maxtor 740dx, new hdd with only one plate. It is really fast, I get over 43mb/s average read rate. I can recomend it, it is very quiet too.Comment
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Don't get too excited about the 75GXP's....both them and the 60GXP's have been having problems...
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Yeah, but the 60GXP's have GOT to be quieter than these noisy-ass things.
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How did you measure that read speed ? No IDE disk delivers more than maybe 25 MB/s at the end of the disk in a sequential read test.Originally posted by sasa
I just bought Maxtor 740dx, new hdd with only one plate. It is really fast, I get over 43mb/s average read rate. I can recomend it, it is very quiet too."That's right fool! Now I'm a flying talking donkey!"
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