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Kaz Kylheku wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 15 May 1998 20:55:41 GMT, veya...@usenet.com wrote:
> 
> >
> >Lots of rumors on the premature failure of these drives and of the poor after-sales service. Anyone with an experience to share ?
> 
> They are indeed shit.
> 
> A relative of mine had one (Fireball 1.2 GB) in his system which was running
> 24x7 (Linux). The drive became very noisy after just a year in operation
> and eventually gave out.
> 
> At my previous job, a coworker complained about the hard drive becoming
> annoyingly noisy in her HP9000/725 workstation. I listened to it and
> though to myself ``that sounds like one of those lousy Quantum drives''.
> 
> I popped up a root shell, did an ``ioscan'' and surely enough;
> it turned out to be a Quantum Fireball!  Someone in the equipment
> supply chain had screwed up royally. A piece-of-shit Fireball in
> an expensive workstation---imagine that.
> 
> When a Quantum drive becomes noisy enough to hear across a room, it's
> time to replace it before it dies.
What are you complaining about. You could have a drive that was really
worth complaining about, the early seagates (promised 40000 hours MTBF
actual about 3 months) before they bought out CDC and eventually learnt
how to build a drive that worked, Kaloks and the the drives that I fell
in love with.

Samsung. Their early 120MB drives promised the same MTBF as the
Quantums, Connors, IBMs (250000 hours) of the time but in one batch of
100 that we got 10% would not and could not work out of the box. Another
40% needed serious persuasion to work at all. The remainder
systematically failed catastrophically over the next year.
Garry Allen