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Subject: Re: List of recommended hardware components
Date: 3 Mar 1995 20:45:00 GMT
Organization: Illuminati Online
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Barnacle Wes (wes@indirect.com) shouted from out of the ether:
> Ching Lin (csmadrin@perot.mtsu.edu) wrote:
> : BTW, any commants on IBM SCSI hard disks?
> : I just bought a 728MB IBM SCSI disk for $280.
> : I believe it runs at 4500 RPM.
> We have one of these in our RS/6000 m250. It died from overuse
> after 3-4 weeks of not being able to run AIX on it. My previous
> message about everyone in the computer industry just doing their
> best notwithstanding, IBM just plain sucks. The only good thing
> I can say about their hardware is that it isn't *quite* as bad as
> their software. :<(
> Wes Peters
I've got an IBM 320meg SCSI-2 drive at home, and a IBM 2gig SCSI-2 drive
at work. I have found both to be solid, high-performance drives. The
only problem drives I am aware of are the 830meg 5-1/4" full-height SCSI
drives, used primarily in RS/6000 systems -- I think IBM is replacing
these on request with a 1gig model. Different people, different experiences.
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