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On Wed, 20 May 1998 19:46:05 GMT, bah...@mail.telepac.pt (Nuno Neves)
wrote:

>On Sun, 17 May 1998 05:35:02 -0700, Steve <st...@rcs.com> wrote:
>
>>gnha...@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 ?
>>> Please Post
>>
>>Spam!  Don't you people see how many newsgroups this
>>message is going to?  Someone is just trying to tarnish
>>the reputation of Quantum.  All hard drives have horror
>>stories to tell.
>
> I have some doubts that it's just spam. 
> I bought a brand new Quantum Fireball ST 3.2 and 4 months later it
>was dead. Nothing special was done to the HD, it just started
>developing bad clusters.

Well, OK but the odd harddisk failing is something every manufacturer
has to deal with.  This is _definitely_ not limited to Quantum.

> And I'm still waiting for a replacement drive. It sure is taking a
>long time. This was probably the last Quantum I bought and probably 
>the last drive I bought from this importer.

Ah, well.  Sounds like your biggest beef is with the importer, not
with Quantum.  That having been said, I've had similar problems myself
when buying high-demand PC stuff - most
retailers/wholesalers/importers buy as much as they think they can
sell fast so as not to be caught with too much "old" stock.
Occassionally, this means they've got to special order it from the
manufacturer if you want it later, and if the manufacturer happens to
be out, you could be waiting a while.

Sounds like bad luck to me,

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Edwin Rots
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