I have a 32550 on my PowerMac 7100/80 and it' sjust hums right along. I
pulled an Apple branded Quantum out, made lots of noise and would
occasionally squeal, eventually locked up.
What I don't care for in Seagate's line is re-labeled Conner stock. I feel
that Conner was probably better than Quantum but they still failed a lot
more than all of my WD's, Seagates, Micropolis and Fujitsu drives.
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
[mailto:owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Dave McGuire
Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2001 5:00 PM
To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: Seagate ST32550N vs Quantum XP32150 - which is better?
On December 29, Ethan Dicks wrote:
> A buddy of mine needs a couple of 2Gb 1" SCSI drives. I have both
> Quantum XP32150s and ST32550Ns available. Are these drives essentially
> equivalent, or is one better than the other?
I can't tell you anything about the XP32150s, but I've set up probably
three hundred ST32550Ns and have had very good luck with them. Their
write caches ship set to "disabled" by default, though, so it's
usually a good idea to stick it on something that'll allow you to edit
the contents of Mode Page 6 to turn it on, if my memory is correct.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
St. Petersburg, FL "Less talk. More synthohol." --Lt. Worf
Received on Sun Dec 30 2001 - 09:37:28 GMT