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Western Digital WD800eB
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1 11391 09-09-2004
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100% of reviewers None indicated 10.0



Description: 80GB 5400 rpm harddrive. more information here:
http://www.westerndigital.com/en/pro...asp?DriveID=54
Keywords: western digital wd800eb protege
Connection Type: ATA


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Old 09-09-2004, 08:36 PM   #1
Gary987
 
Registered: Oct 2003
Distribution: Gentoo, Mint, Ubuntu, Vector
Posts: 149

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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 10

Kernel (uname -r): 2.4.27-gentoo-r1
Distribution: Gentoo



Great Drive..
Works out of the box.



Nice speed of 57 MB a second..copies CD's over to hard drive very quickly..



If you are using a board with nforce2 chipset make sure you enable it in the kernel otherwise the ide transfers will be alot lower! :(

Gary
 




  



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