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(a)bg-tc-ppp1458.monmouth.com>
To: <classiccmp(a)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(a)classiccmp.org
[mailto:owner-classiccmp@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Ethan Dicks
Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2001 4:40 PM
To: classiccmp(a)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
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