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- From: sfuller@tamsun.tamu.edu (Steve Fuller)
- Subject: Re: Ever heard of western Digital?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.174129.15323@tamsun.tamu.edu>
- Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station
- References: <1992Nov18.142439.24135@bio.vu.nl> <1992Nov19.222454.12334@ultb.isc.rit.edu>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 17:41:29 GMT
- Lines: 34
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- In article <1992Nov19.222454.12334@ultb.isc.rit.edu> clf3678@ultb.isc.rit.edu (C.L. Freemesser) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov18.142439.24135@bio.vu.nl> ebido@bio.vu.nl (Etienne Bido) writes:
- >>Somebody offered me a Western Digital 200 MB int. Harddrive for
- >>a good price. But I have never heard of Western Digital!
- >>
- >>Does anybody know if they are any good/fast/reliable?
- >>
- >
- >Western Digital is a very popular company in the PC world. They make
- >all sorts of hard drive controller products for the PC, as well as a
- >number of hard drives.
- >
- >Western Digital has had a number of different hard drive models over the
- >years. I don't think WD itself makes hard drives. I know that the
- >older WD260 and WD360 hard drives were made by Tandon, and weren't all
- >that reliable. I believe their current line of hard drives are called
- >the Caviar series, but I don't know all that much about them.
- >
- >However, I don't recall WD making a SCSI version of their Caviar series.
- >It was my impression that they stopped with SCSI drives when they
- >discontinued the WD260 & 360 series. It is my OPINION that you can do
- >better than a Western Digital hard drive.
- >
- I purchased a Western Digital 'Preference' 40 Meg drive in 1989.
- The case is nice and it has only 1 bad sector after lots of use and abuse.
- However, it is slow (~70ms access time). It is actually a RLL drive with
- a SCSI controller.
-
- They have not produced a new driver since May of 91 and have removed even
- that from their support BBS. Silverlining will not format this drive.
-
- I would recommend avoiding Western Digital for use with Macs.
-
- /s Steve Fuller sfuller@tamu.edu Texas A&M University
-