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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Path: sparky!uunet!brunix!brunix!wcn
- From: wcn@cs.brown.edu (Wen-Chun Ni)
- Subject: Re: Should I buy a fujitsu 520mb IDE HD?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.174727.15864@cs.brown.edu>
- Sender: news@cs.brown.edu
- Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science
- References: <1992Jul21.172055.3438@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 17:47:27 GMT
- Lines: 46
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- In article <1992Jul21.172055.3438@m.cs.uiuc.edu> jwang@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Jane Wang) writes:
- >I am thinking about buying a new hard disk for my gateway 2000 486/33ISA. I got
- >some very good deal on the fujitsu 520mb(12ms) IDE internal drive. I heard it
- >has good quality, plus it comes with 5 years warenttee. But I remember I heard
- >somebody said before that it is not a very good idea to buy large IDE drives.
- >Is it true and why? Should I buy a SCSI drive instead? If yes, do I need to
- >buy a SCSI adaptor and other things? Also for these GW2000 owners who tried
- >this hard disk in your computer, any good or bad experience? Any info. is
- >deeply apreciated.
- >
- >Please send your advice to tgao@cad.cs.uiuc.edu. I borrowed my friends
- >accounts to post this news.
- >
- >Tong Gao
- >tgao@cad.cs.uiuc.edu
-
- I am a Gateway computer owner, so I am qualified for answering the above ;-)
-
- I have one, which was bought from Harddrive International. This drive
- is a half-height one. I use it with my old Westrn-Digital 120mb
- drive. The advertisement is a little misleading: the final formatted
- size is actually 486meg bytes based on the following facts:
-
- DRIVE: M2624A
- CYLINDERS: 995
- HEADS: 16
- LANDING ZONE: 995
- Wr. Precomp: 0
- SECTOR/TRACK 63
-
- The drive is very reliable and fast enough. I use it as the primary drive
- for both OS/2 and Linux, and it lives comfortably with my old IDE drive.
- The only minor problem I have noticed is that the drive is a little hot
- under OS/2 since OS/2 often swaps alot. Now I put all swap spaces in
- the WD drive and I guess no problem will occur. The number of partitions
- on the drive has been eleven and not a single problem occurs to the
- drive about "missing....".
-
- Since I started to use it only 30 days ago, I can't say that I *strongly*
- recommend it. But is's a good drive, I think.
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- Wen-Chun Ni
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