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Richard Shetron wrote:
> 
> 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.
even more important is a low dust emvironment