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- From: bauer@informatik.uni-ulm.de (Christian Bauer)
- Subject: Re: SilverLining or HardDiskTool Kit? Opinions sought
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 11:41:55 GMT
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- In article <C14EE7.J9D@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>, hades@coos.dartmouth.edu
- (Hades) wrote:
- > I pretty much agree with this assessment, and it is one of the
- > reasons that I don't purchace La Cie hard drives. I can't see paying the
- > extra $100-$200 more than other drive sellers just to get Silverlining,
- > which never seemed to work right for me. HDT is a really nice set of
- > utiltites for hard disks, I have all of the drives in my office
- > formatted with it.
-
- You also should consider Drive7 which is also a fast stable driver if
- it meets your needs. Each drives has its weekness. HDT has difficulties
- with some Seagate drives, Silverlining with processing bad sectors,
- Ontrack with its sluggish interface, Drive7 with its missing
- write verfication (HDT PE misses this too!!!)
-
- Concerning in speed all are top performers.
-
- Christian Bauer
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- bauer@informatik.uni-ulm.de
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