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From: fgm@osinet.fr (Frederic G. MARAND)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Recommended SCSI hard drive for BSD system
Date: Tue, 01 Oct 1996 19:45:12 GMT
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tomh@metrics.com (Tom Haapanen) wrote:

>That pretty much leaves IBM and HP, but they tend to have only limited
>availability, a fairly small selection of drive types, and relatively
>higher prices.  

To be fair, IBMs are usually cheaper than Quantums, Fujitsus and
Micropolises. But their latest 2 GB IDE models are really too slow.
More the pity.

Regarding HP, availabiliy will soon become even more limited, since
they just abandoned the hard disk market (one or two weeks ago, reason
unknown, rumour from our suppliers, no hint in the press for the time
being).