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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.

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>purchase a new one.  Therefore for my personal use, I rank them as follows:
>(1)  Western Digital
>(2)  Seagate
>(3)  Quantum
>(4)  Maxtor
>(5)  Digital
>(6)  Fujitsu
>(7)  Conner
>(8)  H-P

	Umm, I could be wrong, but as I recall the Seagate IDE drives
and Conner drives are identicle, just packaged and labled differently.

>Digital would be ranked much higher if they were not so expensive.  Fujitsu
>is ranked low because I don't have enough experience with their hardware to
>have great confidence yet.  Quantum and Maxtor are where they are because
>despite very good customer support, I did lose time and data due to their
>premature failures.
>
>Several of my systems run 24 hours hosting a multi-node BBS.  I have six
>systems in all with 20 hard drives, using a mix of IDE and SCSI over a 100
>Base-T net.  My parts bin contains 10 older HD's which have been retired
>because they are too small and slow by today's standards.  They include a
>Quantum, two Seagates, four Maxtors and four WDs - all performed a hard
>drive lifetime of flawless service.

	Well, I'd rate things a bit differently.  I have only had one
Western Digital drive, and it died in fairly short order.  I've had 3
Qunatum drives, 2 of which are quite old (ie 5 to 7 years old), while
the other is only sorta old (like 3 years old).  All 3 drives are in
perfect working order.  I've also used Maxtor drives, and have had
mixed experiences with them, although wasn't overly impressed by their
reliability.  Personnaly, if I were to buy a new drive now, all things
being equal, I'd probably go for an IBM Deskstar drive.  However,
since the price of the Deskstar is rather high for my uses, I'm
planning on getting a Quantum.  I wouldn't even consider a Western
Digital until they get over the problems they seem to be having at
this time, and Seagate, Fujitsu and Conner are all kinda out of the
running.  I could go for a Maxtor I suppose, but I've had much better
experience with Quantums, and from all reports I've seen, the Quantum
drives are a little faster.

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