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Technology Stocks : Western Digital (WDC) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: David Pirkle who wrote (8063)	12/5/1997 11:28:00 PM
From: Think4Yourself	Respond to of 11057

David, thanks for the link! It was informative. I don't agree they had the WDC drive set up correct (I get 23-27 MB/Sec burst from my WDC drive on two different benchmarks). It is fairly common knowledge that IBM has the fastest line of drives. Last time I checked at the local retailers they had the prices to match. It isn't worth the differenence for most people. You're talking about a few seconds on an all-out 80-90 second disk transfer. You won't even notice a difference in most of the drives if you do a blind game load without a stopwatch. Your game's screen might come up in 4.8 seconds instead of 5.0 seconds. Big Deal! I think I'll go and check IBM's prices again tomorrow. I want to return this Maxtor UDMA drive I got a few weeks ago. It's large, noisy, and it's UDMA transfer rate is less than my WDC drive (at least on my machine). Ken