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- From: Steve Powell <Rock@g4wyc.demon.co.uk>
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- Subject: Re: Help with transfer rate??!?!?
- Date: Thu, 1 Feb 96 01:55:01 GMT
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- In article <4ebsut$cr5@news2.widomaker.com> vortex@widomaker.com (Bradley Leffler) writes:
- > I've recently replaced my 85 meg Maxtor 2.5" IDE with a 200 meg Seagate
- > 2.5". Problem is my transfer rate used to be ~950-1000k/sec with the
- > Maxtor and now the Seagate crawls at ~200k/sec... What in the world is
- > wrong with the drive? Can this problem be corrected? I can't live with a
- > drive this slow!!!!!!!!!!!!
- >
-
- I used to avoid the Seacrate 2.5" IDEs, they, like the similar IBM
- and Western Digital drives, are (were) just amazingly crap, I've seen
- them go as slow as 180Kb sec. Trouble is the damn things are not even
- big enough to make a decent door stop ;-)
-
- I've said this before and loads of you kind chaps wrote back and told
- me I was wrong, and you'd had fine service from Seacrate and the like.
- Well so have I, but not from those old 2.5" units, they are CRAP and I
- went through hundreds of 2.5" drives before I stopped selling them. The
- modern 3.5" drives from the same manufacturers are fine (except IBM who
- tend to make drives that go bang in the night, too often for my liking).
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