"Bob Seaborn"  wrote in message 
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>      I lost confidence with Seagate years ago when their ST251's seemed to
> have a 50%+ failure rate.

That use to be a large drive in it's day. Those drives were used as OEM 
drives in "Headstart 386 Computers"
when I worked for Philips/Magnavox.. We did have some job security back then 
:=)

>
>      I've been using Hitachi, they're extremely quiet also, and do have a
> 36mo warranty from 1st retail sale.

I have to agree, Hitachi drives are very good. Rarely can I find them on 
sale but buying the cheapest price
isn't always the best route to go.

>      It depends on what OS, we're using a slew of 250gb drives in a RAID5
> array under Linux with good results.

Well with Windows and epecially XP I have had my share of problems with 
hardware and software going
beyond the 137 barrier.

>      You have my sympathies, we're using Linux primarily here, but I'm 
> still
> wth OS/2 on my personal machine.

Thanks for the good thoughts. OS/2 will never die.    :=)

Al

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