🚀 go-pugleaf

On Fri, 15 May 1998 20:55:41 GMT, veya...@usenet.com wrote:

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>Lots of rumors on the premature failure of these drives and of the poor after-sales service. Anyone with an experience to share ?

They are indeed shit.

A relative of mine had one (Fireball 1.2 GB) in his system which was running
24x7 (Linux). The drive became very noisy after just a year in operation
and eventually gave out.

At my previous job, a coworker complained about the hard drive becoming
annoyingly noisy in her HP9000/725 workstation. I listened to it and
though to myself ``that sounds like one of those lousy Quantum drives''.

I popped up a root shell, did an ``ioscan'' and surely enough;
it turned out to be a Quantum Fireball!  Someone in the equipment
supply chain had screwed up royally. A piece-of-shit Fireball in
an expensive workstation---imagine that. 

When a Quantum drive becomes noisy enough to hear across a room, it's
time to replace it before it dies.