21 Oct
2012
21 Oct
'12
6:42 p.m.
On Oct 21, 2012, at 6:35 PM, allison wrote:
Then again I have CDC 20mb SCSI that everyone said was
the worst drive for failure thats still
going (CP/M machine using Micromint SB180) and a Quantum Bigfoot 1gb IDE that is
supposed to be also terrible and mine was gotten free and still runs a backup 486DX box.
My recollection of the Bigfoot was that its terrible reputation
was more due to the speed than the reliability; it was a 5.25"
drive in a 3.5" world, so I wonder if they were able to spend
the extra space on beefier servos. I didn't hear any complaints
about their reliability, but perhaps I wasn't listening in the
right circles.
- Dave