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Xref: sserve comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc:17736 comp.os.linux.hardware:1692 comp.os.386bsd.misc:5193 comp.os.os2.misc:124037 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!newshost.marcam.com!news.mathworks.com!solaris.cc.vt.edu!cray-ymp!cfuhrman From: cfuhrman@cray-ymp.acm.stuorg.vt.edu (Chris Fuhrman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.os2.misc,io.general,io.computers Subject: Re: List of recommended hardware components Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.os2.misc,io.general,io.computers Date: 3 Feb 1995 15:13:12 GMT Organization: ACM Student Machine Lines: 21 Message-ID: <3gth68$6au@solaris.cc.vt.edu> References: <3g890k$cbl@ionews.io.org> <3gjhe1$ced@pentagon.io.com> <STEPHENS.95Feb1162921@sycamore.pprd.abbott.com> <3gs889$18@fido.asd.sgi.com> <3gt8b6$f6a@dagny.galt.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: cray-ymp.acm.stuorg.vt.edu NNTP-Posting-User: cfuhrman X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] alex wetmore (alex@phred.org) wrote: : A company that I worked at (which will go unnamed, but it was big and : generally has tons of influence, I'm just not sure how public this ever : was) had tons of Barracudas and Hawks around and returned all of them : to Seagate because of overheating problems that they were having. This : was last summer, after the drives had been out for a couple of years. : Was enough to make me decide to get the Micropolis 4110S instead of a : Seagate Hawk at least. Having shopped around for a good hard drive for group order, I've found out that Micropolis no longer manufactures the drives under 2 Gigs. This is a pity, really, as I've heard that those are *extremely* good drives and the 4110S model had been selling very well. : alex -- Chris Fuhrman | Association for Computing Machinery cfuhrman@cray-ymp.acm.stuorg.vt.edu | Virginia Tech