Andrew Petrie
September 14th, 2002, 05:00 PM
Found out today (hey, I'm out of the loop :D ), IBM is indeed pulling out of the HDD market. My two favorite companies (Quantum, IBM) have slipped away.
I was hunting around and found high praise for Western Digital's JB series of drives. They run at 7200rpm and use an 8mb buffer instead of the typical 2mb. Performance has been comparable to 10k rpm drives.... and reviewers have noted they scream when used in a RAID 0 config.
When I worked as a PC assembler, I got to know Western Digitals quite well - slow, noisy, and often came back for repair. but that was 4 years ago, maybe WD has finally produced something decent with these JB drives. They are also quieter (or so they say).
Does anyone here own one of these 8mb buffered drives? Your thoughts on them?
I was hunting around and found high praise for Western Digital's JB series of drives. They run at 7200rpm and use an 8mb buffer instead of the typical 2mb. Performance has been comparable to 10k rpm drives.... and reviewers have noted they scream when used in a RAID 0 config.
When I worked as a PC assembler, I got to know Western Digitals quite well - slow, noisy, and often came back for repair. but that was 4 years ago, maybe WD has finally produced something decent with these JB drives. They are also quieter (or so they say).
Does anyone here own one of these 8mb buffered drives? Your thoughts on them?