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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!newspump.sol.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!hunter.premier.net!news.mathworks.com!EU.net!news2.EUnet.fr!newsbr.eunet.fr!usenet From: fgm@osinet.fr (Frederic G. MARAND) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Recommended SCSI hard drive for BSD system Date: Tue, 01 Oct 1996 19:45:12 GMT Organization: Groupe SEDI / Agorus SA / OSI SARL / Lines: 17 Message-ID: <52rvki$5t4@newsbr.eunet.fr> References: <324703FC.41C6@austin.ibm.com> <3249A04D.41C67EA6@cisco.com> <vw20fn92ks.fsf@mina.sr.hp.com> <DyLD7t.2II@metrics.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 193.107.196.155 X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5042 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:28415 tomh@metrics.com (Tom Haapanen) wrote: >That pretty much leaves IBM and HP, but they tend to have only limited >availability, a fairly small selection of drive types, and relatively >higher prices. To be fair, IBMs are usually cheaper than Quantums, Fujitsus and Micropolises. But their latest 2 GB IDE models are really too slow. More the pity. Regarding HP, availabiliy will soon become even more limited, since they just abandoned the hard disk market (one or two weeks ago, reason unknown, rumour from our suppliers, no hint in the press for the time being).