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Re: hardware quote comments? - junk



hi ya

yuppers... and if that premise is the one of choice..

the dlink or equivalent $10 10/100 NIC cards need to be tossed
out ....  in favor of an eepro100 or tulip driver based nic cards
instead of rtl8139xxx drivers

c ya
alvin
http://www.linux-1u.net/Disks  ... ata vs scsi ...


On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Noah Meyerhans wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 12:21:33PM -0700, Jason Majors wrote:
> > Also, I'd recommend a 40GB or so IBM ATAPI hard drive instead of the SCSI
> > option. It'll cost you less and provide about the same access speed. Maybe
> > even faster access, if you get a 60 or 80 GB drive. Just make sure it's a
> > 7200RPM drive.
> 
> No way!  Those drives are very much worth the money.  How can you
> compare a 7200 RPM IDE disk to a 10k RPM SCSI disk?  IDE is cheap for a
> reason.  It's junk.  Don't put junk in such a nice machine!
> 
> noah
> 
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