on 9/25/01 1:22 PM, Alexander MacLeod at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> can't say
>> anything about reliability, although quantum's scsi
>> drives are great
>> (which may have no bearing on their ata drives).
>
> I have had good luck with Quantum's SCSI drives, and
> have had no experience with their ATA drives.
>
My impression of Quantum drives is that they're solid and reliable drives...
Absolutely nothing to write home about from a speed/price point of view, but
if you just need the storage and you find a great deal on them, they're
solid.
I had much the same impression of maxtor drives, except they had somewhat
faster models at the expense of quality... A bit more of a crap shoot. That
really changed with the diamond max and the diamondmax plus series... For
awhile they were THE drive to get if you wanted solid, fast and affordable
large storage. Still great drives.
I've had nothing but good luck with IBM, especially their portable drives.
The travelstars are the drive to get if you are replacing a notebook drive.
:) Their 75x series were great just a little expensive, but they have come
down sooooo much in price that 75x series and 60gxp are the ones I always
recommend, as they're about the fastest drives out there in the price range,
and they're solid.
Micropolis... People will probably say the same thing, but they're junk.
Complete junk. You can find all kinds of deals on them, especially older
SCSI drives but avoid them like the plague. One of my larger clients is
stuck in a horrible cycle with them, they are a large printer and bought 2
very large windows NT servers that run on hot-swappable RAID systems. They
had a deal where if a drive goes bad, they send it back and a new one is
shipped back to them in 24hrs... But they are always micropolis drives (I
don�t know where the place is getting them still) and they have a failure
rate in their servers of about 1 drive every month.
> You can also get the IBM DeskStar 60GXP 7200rpm 60gb
> drive for $155 including shipping here:
>
> <http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduct.asp?submit=manufactory&catalog=14&manuf
> actory=1302>
I've ordered four 40gig 60gxp drives from them so far, and had great luck.
$100 for 40 gigs just seemed to be the sweet spot in my budget. :)
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