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On 4 Jun 1998, 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.
> 
> 
 approximatelly 1.5 year ago i bought a quantum hardrives 2.1GB (XP32150)
with an expensive price. the harddrives broked down about 5 month later
after i bought it until now it still make me wanna trow it into garbage
can. how can this be to the quantum fireball scsi drives.