On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 02:32:47PM -0500, Brian wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:
>
> > You should consider Western Digital as well. Often, a particular model of
> > Western Digital is the SAME drive that you get when you buy an IBM drive. I
> > am not sure what sort of deal they have, but it seems there is a bit of
> > overlap with respect to hardware between IBM and Western Digital. I think
> > the overlap is the WD Caviar drives. I have been using these and they seem
> > to run forever (knock on wood).
>
> That's odd, I've never heard of this before. I've had more than my share
> of bad WD drives so I instantly cringe at the thought of putting a WD in
> my machine. Is this pretty standard among drive models (model #241-34520
> or whatever will always be an IBM) or is it kind of random? ("hey Bob,
> what are we putting in here THIS week?")
I have seen this in Arizona, at "Fry's Electronics": they have long tables
with mobos, harddrives, videoboards... etc. As the harddrives were sorted
by capacity you can see oddities like that: two identical hdds, one with
IBM label and the other with WD label. Not the same price though, the IBM was
almost a few $ more.
An interesting thing to note is that in benchmarks two "identical" drives
from WD and IBM will yield different performance (and not allways IBM on
top) - meaning that there are at least some firmware differences.
florin
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