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Re: Quantum Hard Drives
- Subject: Re: Quantum Hard Drives
- From: srh28@cam.ac.uk (Sam Holloway)
- Date: 1998/05/16
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.uucp, comp.sys.amstrad.8bit, comp.sys.apollo, comp.sys.apple, comp.sys.apple2, comp.sys.apple2.comm, comp.sys.apple2.gno, comp.sys.apple2.marketplace, comp.sys.apple2.programmer, comp.sys.apple2.usergroups
- Organization: University of Cambridge, England
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On Sat, 16 May 1998 06:47:55 -0500, Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>
wrote:
<stuff about hard drives>
Bit of a cross posting this, isn't it? Anyway, I owned a Quantum 170MB
hard drive for 5 years (still own the thing, actually) and it's been
fine. The only dodgy part was, about a year after I got it, it
suddenly started reading very slowly. Everything was under warranty,
so I got the engineers out. The guy there said he'd seen it a number
of times with that particular PC (an Elonex) - it was due to kinks in
the IDE cable. And yes - they'd really got me, too. Anyway, the cable
was smoothed out and everything ran like a dream again. How bizarre...
I've now got a 2.1GB U/DMA Fujitsu drive, which runs nice and quietly
and was well priced. I've had experience with many, many PCs, and I've
never noticed a particular brand of drive to be more of a failure than
another.
Hope that helps you all.
Sam
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