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Article #633144Re: Quantum Hard Drives
From: sc... scottdh
Date: Fri, 05 Jun 1998 00:00
Date: Fri, 05 Jun 1998 00:00
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I think you've got that list inverted. >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. ============================================= No quote boy - scottdh
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From: sc...@NOSPAMgarlic.com (scottdh) Subject: Re: Quantum Hard Drives Date: 1998/06/05 Message-ID: <6l7ik4$dq7$2@nntp2.ba.best.com> X-Deja-AN: 359674366 References: <hZ171.7433$z15.4328473@news21.bellglobal.com> <356caf1d.7777443@207.126.101.81> <356E0103.6558@abc.gov.au> <3573d786.4832480@news.metronet.co.uk> <3574FDD0.68E9@goulburn.net.au> <35757895.583641812@207.126.101.81> <3575E4B3.4B84@goulburn.net.au> <35767EB1.7D4E7F85@nh.ultranet.com> X-Trace: 897011140 14151 (none) 206.86.0.12 Organization: The King of this news group Newsgroups: alt.computer.workshop,alt.computer.workshop.live,alt.computerlink.online,alt.education.industry.comp,alt.fan.dean-stark.comp.lang.forth,alt.folklore.computer,alt.folklore.computers,alt.help.with.homework.compsci,alt.incompetence.phil-oliver,alt.industrial.computing MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit