jdb@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Brian K. W. Hook) (02/10/91)
I am considering getting a new hard drive to replace the two I have right now. I have narrowed it down to the following criteria: A. MUST be larger than 143MB B. MUST have access time < 20ms C. MUST be IDE I currently have 133MB worth of RLL 38ms HD space and must now upgrade real soon after installing Windows, MS Windows SDK, C 6.00, TC++, TC 2.0, Quick Pascal, Quick C, Corel Draw, WP 5.1, and what not over the course of a couple of years. The drives that I am considering are the Conner CP3204 (~210MB, 16ms), a Seagate (ST????: 211MB), and the Maxtor LXT200A (as the others). They are within 150 dollars of each other. The lowest price I have seen for the Conner is 789 dollars for DC Drives. Anyone have experience with Conner or DC Drives? I've seen the MAXTOR in the 7s and the Seagate at around the same price. PC Sources ad's are ranging from 900+ for any of the drives down to mid 700s....big range in vendors, eh? Anyway, to sum: Anyone have any of the above drives? What are your experiences? Also, is Conner as good as everyone says they are? Everyone I know considers Conner drives to be the cream of the crop....Miniscribe supposedly really sucks, and Seagate is about the middle of line. Brian
jc58+@andrew.cmu.edu (Johnny J. Chin) (02/10/91)
In my opinion, from a few years of experience with IDEs:
Conner is "cream of the crop" on all of their IDE drives except the 20MB.
I have several of these (including 8 of the 208MB one) running at various
client sites. As for the 8 208MB IDE Conners, they are in a Compaq SystemPro
running all day long, 7-days a week for the past 6 months. No problems. Not
to mention, this of course is a server.
MiniScribe ... in a worse I've used. They work most of the time as a single
drive, but if you daisy-chain two of them, they fail intermittantely.
Seagate ... if all of you don't know, is one of the BIGGEST hard drive
manufacturer. They brought out Imprimis (which use to be CDC). And I also
heard that they took over Microscience. In general, Seagate is good for the
price. The WREN series (use to Imprimis) is very good. The original
Seagate is average, not as great.
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In article <26812@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> jdb@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Brian K. W. Hook) writes:
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The drives that I am considering are the Conner CP3204 (~210MB, 16ms),
a Seagate (ST????: 211MB), and the Maxtor LXT200A (as the others). They
are within 150 dollars of each other.
I blew the bearings on an Imprimis ST1201A (177Mb) which had been spinning
continuously for 8 months and brought a Conner CP3204. I've been very
satisfied with it, it seems much quieter then the Imprimis product (this is
an important criteria for me, since the machine is a BBS in my living room).
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In article <OTTO.91Feb18172553@tukki.jyu.fi> otto@tukki.jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela) writes: | I blew the bearings on an Imprimis ST1201A (177Mb) which had been spinning | continuously for 8 months and brought a Conner CP3204. Did you buy it without the standard one year warantee (ie. used)? One thing I have never had problems with from Seagate is waranty repairs. -- bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen) sysop *IX BBS and Public Access UNIX moderator of comp.binaries.ibm.pc and 80386 mailing list "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me