Whoa, do you think I should move to IBM drives now?
I hear that they are good but I did not know that about the
Quantum ones!---Whoa.
On Thursday 26 April 2001 05:02 am, so spoke [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> Quantum and Maxtor are now one, though you can still differentiate which
> drive line belongs to who because the line names haven't changed. I hear
> good things about both of these lines now, but my memory is still scared by
> both. Even though I use IBM drives now, I still remember the stickion
> drives that you had to beat on in order to get them to spin up. I also
> remember those drives that had a faulty ground finger, so the spindle would
> build up a static change and then discharge across the platters. When it
> comes to Quantum, the memory of those winning drives that where not too
> reliable is still very vivid in my mind. Also, some of my coworkers still
> complain that they are partially deaf from those drives. You should have
> seen the chuckles that I got out of one of my co-workers when I told him
> that Quantum was advertising quite drives. I'm still too afraid to buy one
> of these mostly do to how long they sold cruddy, whining drives. (Then
> again they used to always be the low bidder.)
>
> I also have a Maxtor. I have been using computers with Maxtor drives ever
> since my dad brought home a 286 with a full hieght 5 1/4 Maxtor drive.
> (The drive started off as a business drive, but the computer it started off
> on got retired.) The drive then moved on to a 386. The drive must of had
> been in use for over 10 years and in that entire time, only few few
> clusters went bad, taking out the display for my eighth grade science
> project that I had labored many hours over. Since then I have almost
> continually have had a Maxtor drive in one of my computers and I have never
> had a problem. I remember a couple of years back I know someone that
> worked for Fry's Electronics and he said that at the time he was seeing a
> lot of Maxtor drives being returned because the heads snapped off.
>
> With Western Digital, I have had mixed experiences. My Dad once had a 1 GB
> Western digital drive on his P100 back when the P100 was about the fastest
> machine around. One of the heads snapped off on the first drive within a
> few months, so he got Western Digital to replace the drive. The
> replacement drive suffered the exact same fate a few months after that. A
> few months before my Dad bought his P100, he picked up an 850 MB Western
> Digital. He used that drive for a few years and then put it in storage. A
> couple of years back I decided to build a buget firewall and got him to
> give me the drive. To this day it is still in use on a machine that is
> left running 24/7. Something to watch out for is that not all that long
> ago Western Digital had a big recall of drives. My mother had a drive that
> was manufactored right after the end of the recall and I just sent it back
> because it was flaking out on her and when I tested it one of my computers,
> it behaved poorly. With my brother's 18 GB 7200 RPM drive he had a problem
> where one of the pins stayed in the connector on the IDE cable when he
> unplugged the drive. Fortunately my Dad was able to solder it back on and
> my brother hasn't had a problem since. I have also been hearing that more
> recent Western Digital drives have bugs when working in UltraDMA mode.
>
> > I personally prefer Quantum hard drives, although I have not had
> > any maxtors or WD, I know about IBM and Quantums being
> > good linux drives.
