Seagate ST32550N vs Quantum XP32150 - which is better?

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Mon Dec 31 03:18:01 2001

Another thing to ponder is that the drive makers didn't have to do much to
make the jump in capacity other than modifying the read/write channel. When
they went to MR heads, their capacity was immediately more than 10x what it
previously was with essentially the same HDA. Once the track density was
adjusted, another 5-8x increase was had. All for essentially no more than a
switch in head technology.

Perhaps a 2 GB drive is realistic in the >1" format ...

Dick

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ian Koller" <vze2mnvr_at_verizon.net>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>; <jpero_at_sympatico.ca>
Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2001 2:51 PM
Subject: Re: Seagate ST32550N vs Quantum XP32150 - which is better?


>
>
> > because our customer base are still using 486, pentiums and older
> > machines, and many are unwilling to jump for low-end 20GB for their
> > machines
>
>
> Maybe you need to explain to them that if they don't pay the
> fiddler, they just might have to sit this dance out.
>
>
> > Makers should have kept selling 5GB to 15GB range
>
>
> How many people would expect/demand a lower price on these than
> a 20 Gb just because they're smaller. And if that price level
> weren't going to be profitable to the manufacturer, hey, production
> halts. Anybody that doesn't like it can produce their own. No
> manufacturer is going to run a charity operation.
>
>
>
>
> jpero_at_sympatico.ca wrote:
> >
> > > I prefer Quantum drives myself, but I guess it's more like the debate
> > > between Ford and Chevy. I have only one Seagate, in this Linux
machine
> > > and it works just as well as all of my Quantums. I'm more leery of
the
> > > new drives, as they seem not to have the quality of just a couple
years
> > > ago. Guess it is the marketing arm of Maxtor now driving quality.
> > >
> > > Gary Hildebrand
> >
> > Maxtor is good maker.
> >
> > I rest your worries, I work part time for years for pc shop is
> > selling machines with all kinds of HDs, IBM, Qs, Maxs, Seagates, WDs
> > etc. We recently kicked out WD lineup from our new machines due to
> > quality, compatiablity issues (very serious), Q lineup shrank to
> > uselessness due to LCTs and CX-KA era screwups by our supplier, but
> > newer ones like KX, KS and Max's Qs are good so far but no longer
> > available.
> >
> > Max and IBM are what we have left to choose from for using with new
> > machines and parts we sell. Dodged the 75GXP bullet since we
> > couldn't sell these at prices customers is willing to pay for given
> > capacity till IBM came out with 60GXP and Max w/ 7200rpm. Prices
> > on both went below $200 for 20GB are what we able to include them
> > with our new systems and for parts.
> >
> > So far for last 4 years we have good record regearding the Max, Q and
> > IBM (aside from 75GXP we didn't use due to prices back then).
> >
> > What drives us nuts we cannot get IDE Seagate drives from that same
> > suppiler that used to sell those in past till 9GB years ago.
> > Seagate are also good drives but we cannot obtain them. I'm
> > mystified at that change.
> >
> > Makers should have kept selling 5GB to 15GB range because our
> > customer base are still using 486, pentiums and older machines, and
> > many are unwilling to jump for low-end 20GB for their machines to
> > replace overstuffed HD or ones that failed. Even the low end 20GB
> > 5.4K rpm is decently inexpesnive but these will cause problems in
> > these older machines. FYI: Used little HDs (2GB to 10GB) ones are
> > in demand around here and our used HD shelf of those kind are bare
> > and the other supplier specializing in selling pulls or NOS on
> > older parts dried up or disappeared.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Wizard
>
>
Received on Mon Dec 31 2001 - 03:18:01 GMT

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.3.0 : Fri Oct 10 2014 - 23:33:42 BST