Re: Quantum Hard Drives

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From: Robert Baer
Date: Thu, 04 Jun 1998 00:00

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Richard Shetron wrote:
> 
> In article <3573d786...@news.metronet.co.uk>,
> Tech Support <tech...@metronet.co.uk> wrote:
> >Indeed they are crap!
> 
> Quantum makes several different models of differening quality.  We tried
> 2 fireball drives over a year ago and both died very young.  The fireball
> appear to be designed for light consumer usage.
> 
> On the other hand, we use the quantum atlas-II in our news server and
> have not had a failure.  Some of the drives have been in use for close to
> 3 years.  There is a DEC DSP6310 (quantum bought the DEC drive division
> in 95?), that we bought around the end of 94 that has been running as
> a news drive from the start.  These drives have been about the longest
> lasting drives we've had for this type of duty.
> 
> I just bought a couple viking? models to try as boot drives on the news
> server (as well as make the machine entirely fast wide.
....And then there was the 10 Mbyte MFM drive in my (now old) PC XT that
lasted 15 years with no problems; it was a Tandon re-labelled IBM....

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From: Robert Baer <rober...@olywa.net>
Subject: Re: Quantum Hard Drives
Date: 1998/06/04
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