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In article <Pine.OSF.4.02A.99021...@matt.petra.ac.id>,
Dendy Wibisono - 31498212  <emed...@matt.petra.ac.id> wrote:
>
>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. 

I don't have ready access to the part numbers, but IIRC we've got 3 of
those (wide) as a 6GB array on our news machine and they've been running
fine for 2 to 3 years now.  If you purchased the drive new, it should
have been replaced under eitehr the sellers or manufacturers warranty.
Other factors that can affect drive life are temperature, we have extra
cooling fans in all the boxes and the room temperature is kept around 70F.