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From: jin@gracie.lbl.gov (Jin Guojun[ITG])
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Bying a harddisk. Please advice me!
Date: 23 Aug 1995 18:03:38 GMT
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
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In article <41fmov$dp@spider.hik.se>,
Kristofer Pettersson  <thek@erika.fdata.se> wrote:
>I just came to the conclusion that I need a bigger disk, 1 GB minimum. I dont
>know very much about harddisks though. Could anyone please tell me what I
>should buy to get the most out of my money and not having too much trouble
>installing FreeBSD on to it.
>

For large disk, Micropolis is the better one. $2100 for 9GB.
For 2 GB disk, Seagate Baracuda is the better one. $700 for 2GB.

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