Re: Quantum Hard Drives

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From: sl...
Date: Wed, 03 Jun 1998 00:00

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In article <3568f4c5.8249680@news>, ah...@travel-net.com (Anthony Hill) wrote:
>On Sat, 23 May 1998 19:16:55 GMT, ron...@linkononline.net (Ron
>Hoffman) wrote:
>>Don't know Edwin, but it does appear to me that Quantum is currently having
>>more problems with reliability than the other manufacturers.  Additionally,
>
>        Interesting.  I work in a store where we sell Seagate, Western
>Digital and Quantum drives.  In terms of failures the Western Digital
>drives have been horrible.  The Seagates are ok, while the Quantums
>have far and away the lowest failure rates.  Older Quantum drives
>weren't as good, but their current Fireball drives at least seem to be
>very reliable.  As for the Western Digitals, it's probably just a
>temporary setback, as they're usually reasonable.

16.5 hours of overtime due to a 1.5 year old failed Quantum Hard drive... 
Grrrrr...............................
what realy sucks is the drives for the original server (1992) 1 gig seagates 
are still running.............................

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From: sl...@nosmap.stax.net
Subject: Re: Quantum Hard Drives
Date: 1998/06/03
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