What I find noteable is that I've never needed service from Quantum, while I
have plenty of experience with Seagate, not all bad, however. My
experience with Western Digital, unfortunately, hasn't been so good,
however. I gave away a dozen and a half still-sealed-in-the-antistatic-bag
drives last year, because the oldest of them had been replaced 4 times under
warranty, and the newest, 7 times. These were WD21200's, originally
purchased as 31200's, but replaced with the two-platter variety as service
required.
My oldest drives are either Quantum or Shugart (8" AC-spindle types). My
oldest 5-1/4" drives are Seagate, though they're only weeks older than my
oldest Shugart and Tandon 5-1/4" drives.
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Pechter" <pechter_at_bg-tc-ppp1458.monmouth.com>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2001 4:50 PM
Subject: Re: Seagate ST32550N vs Quantum XP32150 - which is better?
> > I've always had better service from Seagate. Quantum is now absorbed
into
> > Maxtor and I pretty much have had a lot of problems with IDE and SCSI
drives
> > by Quantum. Unless a Seagate is dead or damaged, I never have problems
with
> > them - have 8 ST410800N 9.1 SCSI FH drives on my server and all run AOK.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
> > [mailto:owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Ethan Dicks
> > Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2001 4:40 PM
> > To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
> > Subject: Seagate ST32550N vs Quantum XP32150 - which is better?
> >
> >
> >
> > 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?
> >
> > -ethan
> >
> >
> I've had mixed luck with the XP32150's... I think the 32550N's would
> last longer.
>
> I've got a bad 32150 (wide SCSI differential version) downstairs...
>
> I've also got a bunch of Quantum Fireball drives that you can't kill.
>
> The problem seems to be based on which model Quantum -- some are good
> some are dogs.
>
> I thought all the IBM's were great until I heard about the problems with
> their 60gb and up stuff...
>
>
> Bill
>
> Bill
> --
> d|i|g|i|t|a|l had it THEN. Don't you wish you could still buy it now!
> bpechter_at_shell.monmouth.com|pechter_at_ureach.com
>
>
Received on Mon Dec 31 2001 - 10:34:38 GMT