Re: Quantum Hard Drives

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

m.kelsey@spam.eecs.wsu.edu writes ...
> 
> In article <E0271.7528$z15.4328473@news21.bellglobal.com>,
>         hwhkoiyd@usenet.com writes:
> >
> > 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
> >
> 
> Everyone seems to have their own opinions of what drives are > quality and
> which ones are junk.  I have had experience with SCSI and IDE > flavours of the following types ...
 ....

     This is interesting info.

     My experiece with buying HD's includes Western Digital and Quantum.
Evidently, a surprising number of turkey's do get past quality control.

     I've owned both smaller WD and Quantum drives which worked
beautifully for years. One old '486 system still has a 720MB WD Caviar
drive which runs without a hitch. (A 120MB Quantum ran fine, too; but,
it is not currently in use.)

     Recent buys from a mail order outlet produced a WD drive (3.4GB or
so Caviar drive) which started to make weird noises. After seeing
warnings about WD on the net, I returned the WD drive and changed the
order to a 6.5GB Quantum Fireball. It soon developed numerous errors.

     After the 4th or 5th re-install of Win95, the Quantum was returned
for a replacement 6.5GB Fireball. The replacement has worked like a
champ for several months.

     One possibility is that some mail order suppliers try to dump
returned drives on other buyers. I do not have any proof that this
happens. On the other hand, all of the drives installed by local shops
have been okay. The turkeys came via mail order.

     On the third hand, the mail ordered drives were much larger faster
drives and, so, may be more difficult to test.

     Anyway, the mail order supplier was willing to accept returns and
there would be little hesitation in going for a Quantum drive for future
upgrades.



Rubywand