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- From: szatrows@gandalf.rutgers.edu (John Kheit)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
- Subject: Re: Gigabyte drives information
- Message-ID: <Nov.5.01.28.54.1992.15738@gandalf.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 06:28:55 GMT
- References: <1992Nov4.010355.12962@leland.Stanford.EDU> <1992Nov5.032946.27374@cs.yale.edu>
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- I have the Segate 1.4 gig drive (Wren 8?). Its worked with no
- problems, so far (knock wod :). I've had it for close to a year (I
- think). Its relativly quite, not the quitest, its pretty fast, not
- the fastest, but it is incredibly resiliant! I've had a zillion
- crashes (can you say 3.0 beta), power outages while moving megs of
- files (when making the monoLib CD's) and the drive bounce back every
- time with no problems. I was praising the fsck gods many a time :)
-
- The only thing that is a bummer, and its got nothing to do with the
- drive... is that when you have a drive that big a you move tons of
- files around the drive starts to get slow because of fragmentation.
- The kind o fragmentation that just wont go away unless you completly
- rebuild your drive. I did a rebuild (build disk) and 3.0 now appears
- to run about 50% faster! I wish that their was somekind of
- defragmentation software.
-
- later, John
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