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02-14-2006
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100% of reviewers
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$84.67
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8.6
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Description:
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80G Western Digital IDE hard drive, 7200 rpm, 8Mg cache (many HD's have only a 2 Mg cache). Manufacturer's warranty = 3 years
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Keywords:
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hard drive 80G
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Connection Type:
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IDE ULTRA ATA100
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03-21-2004, 03:42 AM
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Registered: Mar 2003
Distribution: Slack v12, SuSE v10.3, SuSE v10.2 x86_64
Posts: 6,517
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: $85.00 | Rating: 10
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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.4.22
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Distribution:
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Slackware
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I've purchased several of these drives for my machines, and all have been superb. Jumper settings are clearly marked, these disks are almost silent, and the best thing of all is the 8Mg cache, which enables much faster performance than the typical 2Mg caches many other drives have. Note also that these disks spin at 7200 rpm vs. the typical 5400 rpm of many other drives.
Current prices (March 2004) for this drive are approx $75 although I admit I paid more due to the fact that my purchases were done in late 2002 and early 2003. This family of drives in my opinion is top notch - I have been running several of these drives in multiple machines and couldn't be happier with them. -- J.W.
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03-23-2004, 06:47 PM
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#2
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Registered: Feb 2002
Distribution: Mandrake/Mandriva, Slackware, Debian, OpenSuSE
Posts: 8,926
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 10
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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.4.X (different versions)
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Distribution:
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Mandrake, Slackware, Debian
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I've got this disk for nearly 2 years and like it very much. It's big, quiet and fast. I've never had a problem with it.
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06-22-2005, 02:28 PM
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#3
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Registered: Oct 2004
Distribution: Slack 10.1, Mandrake 10.1
Posts: 118
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: $90.00 | Rating: 10
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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.4.29, 2.6.7-11
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Distribution:
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Slackware 10.0,10.1
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No problems. Only working.
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12-02-2005, 10:41 AM
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Registered: Dec 2005
Distribution: Fedora Cores 6 & 9, SLES 10
Posts: 12
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: $79.00 | Rating: 3
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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.4.20-30.9
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Distribution:
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Red Hat 9
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I'm glad everybody else has had such good luck with these. I must have gotten a bad one.
There are bad blocks all over this thing ... DMA timeouts (then DMA shutdown, followed by resets & horrible performance).
I'm going back for an exchange soon. Before I do that, I'm running the read/write badblocks testing and seeing if I can't avoid having to exchange it. It doesn't look good (am now in the third hour of mke2fs -cc on a 6 GB partition), though.
Will re-post later and hopefully (!!) be able to raise the compatibility rating!!
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02-14-2006, 09:20 AM
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#5
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Registered: Feb 2006
Distribution: Fedora Core 2.6.5
Posts: 1
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 10
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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.6.5-1.358
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Distribution:
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Fedora Core II
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An excellent drive at an average price. Paid about $75 USD at local store. New install detected with no problems. Running it on an old Dell Dimension XPS D300 and the system is whisper quiet. Will probably buy another on eBay for RAID purposes as they're running about $40~$50 there right now.
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