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« Reply #15 on: July 16, 2003, 05:51:19 AM »
Have Western Digitals regained a "quality" reputation?  It's been a while since I last bought a hard drive, but I remember the mantra "Never buy WD"
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« Reply #16 on: July 16, 2003, 08:33:35 AM »
Yes. WD have regained a good reputation. If they ever lost it. smile.gif

The 8 MB Cache WDs are highly thought of.

Some people love/hate different brands for whatever reason.

Any hard Drive can fail. smile.gif
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« Reply #17 on: July 16, 2003, 12:23:33 PM »
IAWK <-forgot how to do that! <gr>
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« Reply #18 on: July 20, 2003, 02:42:59 PM »
I've order a USB case for the old drive-thought it would make it easier to transfer files back, and won't be bad as a backup, and a Quantum 30G hard drive

Shipping was reasonable.

I'll be asking huh.gif LOTS huh.gif of questions when it gets here.  whistling.gif
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« Reply #19 on: July 20, 2003, 05:52:59 PM »
Hard to say what that Drive is Jennie.  huh.gif

LBA is meaningless. Any Drive since about 1837 uses that.

http://www.pcwebopedia.com/TERM/L/LBA.html

There's a lot of Quantum Fireballs.

http://www.maxtor.com/en/support/products/archive.htm

I'm concerned about that 2.5 measurement. Size:  2.5X3.5X1

2.5 is for Laptops.

The USB Case will be handy.
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« Reply #20 on: July 20, 2003, 06:15:24 PM »
"I've order a USB case for the old drive-thought it would make it easier to transfer files back"

Any particular reason the USB instead of firewire Jennie.?.
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« Reply #21 on: July 20, 2003, 06:20:38 PM »
Because no Firewire on the 333? huh.gif

http://new.lowendmac.com/imacs/imac-d.shtml
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« Reply #22 on: July 20, 2003, 06:35:57 PM »
Thought about that afterwards.
Well I had a hair-brain idea but that went poof.
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« Reply #23 on: July 21, 2003, 01:00:43 PM »
QUOTE(kelly @ Jul 20 2003, 6:52 PM)
I'm concerned about that 2.5 measurement. Size:  2.5X3.5X1

2.5 is for Laptops.

 I got concerned, so I called.  Gary at Poweron tells me it is not a laptop drive.  I told him it was going into the iMac and he said it would be fine.

thanx.gif for watching out for me! wub.gif I never noticed  sleep1.gif the size.
Do not fear your enemies.  The worse they can do is kill you.  Do not fear friends.  At worst, they may betray you.
Fear those who do not care; they neither kill nor betray, but betrayal and murder exist because of their silent consent.
~Bruno Jasienski~