[G4] External Firewire Hard Disk Case for IDE Drive
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srf7425 at osfmail.isc.rit.edu
Thu Aug 7 07:09:31 PDT 2003
yup that was right after the deathstar, i mean deskstar debacle. i believe
it was up over 20% drive failure with the 40 and 60 GB IBM deskstar
drives. I myself had 2 apple OEM deskstars fail within a month of
recieving.
sandor
On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, jgvp wrote:
> IBM sold their hard drive manufacturing operations to Hitachi some time
> ago.
>
> On Thursday, August 7, 2003, at 08:27 AM, Power Macintosh G4 List
> wrote:
>
> > Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 23:17:04 -0700
> > Subject: Re: [G4] External Firewire Hard Disk Case for IDE Drive
> > From: Mark Singh <macfan at telus.net>
> > Message-Id: <C3FDC94B-C89E-11D7-A61E-000A27E36AEE at telus.net>
> >
> > On Wednesday, August 6, 2003, at 03:33 PM, H F wrote:
> > IBM's were really in vogue a few years ago, but have really suffered
> > from all the reported failures of their large capacity drives. The
> > Barracuda's are also super quiet. I'm using an 80 GB one that I'm quite
> > happy with.
>
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