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Article #633140Re: Quantum Hard Drives
From: Wizard
Date: Thu, 04 Jun 1998 00:00
Date: Thu, 04 Jun 1998 00:00
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Here are my personal ratings based on Performance, Quality, Tech Support and compatibility. 10=Best, 0=DO NOT BUY (even if free): Western Digital 9.0 Maxtor 8.3 IBM 7.5 Seagate 6.8 Fujitsu 5.5 JTS 3.0 Quantum 2.0 Alecto wrote: > > > > > You are duping yourselves. For one thing, two years is not necessarily long > > enough to expose failures in Quantum drives that are not in 24x7 use. > > Few of the machines we've sold are in 24hour use ,most of out customers > are home users ,they don't need military spec. The way things are going > drives more than 2 years old will be small to be of much use anyway > (think about it). > > Being a tech ,I have a rather large dead HD collection ,not meny > Quantams or Seagates ,but I've got heaps of dead Maxtors ,too meny dead > Weastern Digitals(I love the little ping they make when there dead :) ) > ,100% of the Die Young's we sold(apptly named) ,and quite a few dead > Fujitsu's , > > What brand would you recomend? > > Alecto.
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