Digital BW, The Print

Yes, this is what I have always heard and was surprised to hear otherwise on 
the list in the last few postings.  I'm looking into an IBM Deskstar myself, 
because of their reputation for reliability.

Helene


> Their desktop
> drives are solid. IBMs are the only drives I'll recommend to my clients.
> Avoid Western Digital as they have a high rate of failure.



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I thought Maxtor drives were at least as well regarded as IBM drives, 
at least among Mac folk? I hope JV will let us know what the mix of 
his clients is and whether he thinks that's relevant.

Sam

>Yes, this is what I have always heard and was surprised to hear otherwise on
>the list in the last few postings.  I'm looking into an IBM Deskstar myself,
>because of their reputation for reliability.
>
>Helene
>
>
> > Their desktop
> > drives are solid. IBMs are the only drives I'll recommend to my clients.
> > Avoid Western Digital as they have a high rate of failure.

> I thought Maxtor drives were at least as well regarded as IBM 
drives, 
> at least among Mac folk? I hope JV will let us know what the 
mix of 
> his clients is and whether he thinks that's relevant.
> 
> Sam

Sam,

IBM, Maxtor and Segate drives are ok in my book -  the IBMs are 
just so dang quiet. My clients consist of photographers mostly, 
with a few design firms thrown in, in and around NYC. I'm a Mac 
guy...don't know much about Windows - but I should!

Best Regards,

John V.

Thanks to list members who offered advice on SCSI v. IDE for a Photoshop
machine. I decided to use the fastest IDE drives I could find: 2 x 40 GB
in a RAID-0 pair for Photoshop scratch, and one 120 GB (with an 8 MB
buffer) for system/applications/documents. 

Then I spent all $ saved by not buying SCSI, plus more, on memory: a
total of 3 GB of DDR (double data rate) RAM. I can't be sure if this is
optimum, but I suspect it won't suck.

Richard Wolfson