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PowerMan57two
December 7th, 2002, 11:50 PM
is this a good hard drive to buy, cause i know nothing about hard drives... but it says at the bottom like OEM version only, whatever that means... but heres the details please help me tell me if this is a good one or not

Features and Benefits
IBM 36.7GB 15,000RPM Ultra 160 SCSI HDD Ultrastar 36Z15 / 80-pin / 4MB Buffer / OEM

• Advanced Technology •

Introducing IBM's industry-leading Ultrastar 15,000 RPM disk drive family - the new Ultrastar 36Z15. Leveraging the award-winning technologies that have generated proven quality and high performance, IBM continues to push forward with powerful processors and read/write channels, feed-forward servo controls that improve seek and settle times, and suspension dynamics that enable better servo bandwidth, improved mechanical stability, and faster speeds for the new Ultrastar 15,000 RPM family.

The Ultrastar 36Z15 hard disk drive combines fast seek times, large multi-segmented buffers, a sophisticated command queuing system, hardware automation, and industry-leading data rates to achieve outstanding I/O performance.

• IBM Ultrastar 36Z15 Specifications •
• CHECK IT OUT BELOW! •

Capacity
• 36.7GB

Recording Zones
• 11


Heads
• 12

Disk
• 6

Areal Density (max)
• 397,000 BPI

Track Density
• 27,000 TPI

Data Buffer
• 4096 KB

Rotational Speed
• 15,000 RPM


Latency (average)
• 2 ms

Media Transer Rate
• 453-647 Mbits/sec



Interface Transfer Rate
• 160 MB/s

Sustained Transfer Rate
• 36.6-52.8 MB/s

Seek Time
• Average: 4.2 ms
• Track to Track: 0.65 ms
• Full Track: 8.9 ms

Error Rate (nonrecoverable)
• 10 in 10E16 bits read

Start/stop cycles
• 50,000 cycles

Power Requirements
• +5VDC (±5%)
• +12VDC (±5%)


Startup (maximum peak)
• 1.0A (5V)
• 2.5 A (12 V)

Idle
• 13.5 W

Dimensions
• Height: 25.7 mm
• Width: 101.6 mm
• Depth: 146 mm



Warranty
One (1) year VENDOR warranty.

Package Contents
OEM Drive only

PowerMan57two
December 7th, 2002, 11:55 PM
it says this also
Comes with an 80 to 68 pin adapter with ID selection!

how do i know this will work and be compatible with my computer? my computer is new, windows xp, HP Pavilion 751n

CCSDUDE
December 8th, 2002, 12:44 AM
http://www.maxtor.com/en/products/ata/desktop/diamondmax_d540x-4g/index.htm

Cheap....decent drives....

As for SCSI.....it's not 'evil' or fucked up....I use SCSI drives all the time. Have 4 of 'em that I swap around when I work on videos....no dropped frames at 800x600+ @ 29fps uncompressed AVI so they are worth the extra cash....now some will tell you SCSI is crap blah blah blah ...but there fulla shit IMHO. Now for your HP I'd say go with normal UATA IDE....it's cheaper and your mid range HP without a doubt isn't set up for SCSI...and in all seriousness your HP prolly cost less then some of the HQ SCSI drives...lmfao one I picked up was 600 bucks without tax....and if I recall correctly your HP on the market today is like 699....


Hey Krell.....post-ah-holic? I think you/JLG/Crazy-whatever his name is deserves that title.....


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