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> > From: Michael Dillon <[email protected]> > > On Sat, 19 Oct 1996, Robert E. Seastrom wrote: > > > With cold-convenient-swappable IDE drawers that let even a > > kindergartener swap out an IDE hard drive and high quality 100mb hard > > drives available for like $50 > > Where on earth do you find new drives this small??? > > http://www.corpsys.com > > But apparently with their current stock of new drives you'll have to > settle for IBM 3.5" 170mb drives for $99 each ($89 qty 10). > > Now, if you don't mind refurbs, there are $65/$55 80mb drives and > $69/$59 131mb drives. I've dealt with these folks before and they're > righteous. > > Oh well, the $50 was a little optimistic, or maybe not if you're > buying a bunch of 'em... > > ---Rob > > > I have a hard time calling IDE drives reliable. At one time I used them in firewalls, and every now and then, tripwire would report random changed bits on the disk, and then the next time I ran tripwire, the problem would just go away. Now I use low end SCSI drives for these kind of applications cause I prefer to have all my data parity checked. Rob - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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