Am 2005-01-25 11:37:35, schrieb Martin Bock:
> Michelle,
>
> On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 10:13:42PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote:
> [snip]
> > I am using IBM Travelstar without any Problems for many years
> > (I have 7 Laptops with IBM Disks from 3,2 -60 GBytes).
>
> What about the noise of your 60GB drive? Is the spin noise particularly
> high pitched or are the head movements rather loud?
OK, right, you can hear the difference between the
20 GByte and the 60 GByte HDD, but not very much.
Performance and waranty was more important as noise.
> Somebody off-list told me that about older (~10GB) IBM disks and
> therefore recommended Samsung drives.
They exist today ?
The smallest I found was a IBM/Hitachi Travelstar DK23EA-20 (06/2003)
> If this is no longer true I guess I will stick with IBM due to good
> reliability I experienced with their drives.
:-)
> Thanks, Martin
Greetings
Michelle
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