Re: Quantum Hard Drives

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From: Neil Franklin
Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 00:00

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k...@cafe.dot.net (Kaz Kylheku) replied to:
> On Fri, 15 May 1998 20:55:41 GMT, veya...@usenet.com wrote:
> >
> >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.

As this is crossposted to alt.folklore.computers:

Some of the newer Quantums are bad. The older ones were great. I am
writing this on an 486 with an 3 year old Empire 2100S. Never had any
trouble with it. But this was an upper market model, SCSI, 2GB, $1200
(3 years ago!).

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

This one has been audible in 5 metre distance ever since its first
day (particularly when seeking). We are talking here about heavy
metal, an "full" 42mm hight thing.

a.f.c-ers: remember when full hight was still those 8" Shugart things?

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