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To: techie-kinda-girl who wrote (3)12/18/1998 9:02:00 PM
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Yes, as a matter of fact, there is an issue between these two manufacturers, as well as WD and Seagate. There was some serious firmware problem with Western Digital, that has been fixed in the last few revisions. Although Western Digital would never tell you, they were failing to address these serious circumstances. I'd recommend running the WD, and your CD ROM (assuming you have one) on the secondary IDE bus, and run the new Quantum on the Primary, as your boot drive. Older WD's have failure issues so I would begin to move your critical data to your new Quantum.. Maybe stick you swap file onto the WD, and let IT get beat up instead of your new drive. I currently run two Quantum drives in my desktop machine and find that they seriously out perform the WD's I recently went through.. Anyhoo, good luck Techie...
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