Subject: Re: Choosing the right PC-box.
To: Rafal Boni <rafal@scofflaw.banyan.com>
From: Rick Kelly <rmk@rmkhome.rmkhome.com>
List: current-users
Date: 06/05/1996 04:55:06
Rafal Boni said:
>In message <199606041524.IAA11741@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>, Jason Thorpe wrote:
>
>-> ...I'd avoid the Quantum, and get Fujitsu drives. I've had no end of
>-> trouble with Quantums and Seagates, and I've _never_ had a problem with a
>-> Fujitsu drive...'Course, this assumes getting SCSI...
>
> Acutally, I've had the opposite experience... I've had a lot of
> trouble with Fujitsu SCSI drives and no problems at all with the
> Quantums (and DEC-repackaged ones Dell used to put in their
> machines). Seagate's have been fairly good, although I've had
> friends who complained esp. about the Sun-repackages ones (the
> drives ran really hot and sun put them in air-tight packaging).
>
>Just another point-of-view...
As the owner of 14 operating Quantum drives, with a couple of them
dating back to 1988, I can say I haven't had a problem.
Yet another point of view. :-)
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