Re: 4GB Drives: Who's better Seagate or Quantum

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From: Ralf-Peter Rohbeck
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 1995 14:04

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vp24njcb@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu wrote:
>In article <46hcd8$t18@elaine16.Stanford.EDU>, kla@leland.Stanford.EDU (Earl Mitchell) writes:
>>
>>What should I go for the Seagate Barracuda or Quantum Grand PRix?
>>The Quantums appear significantly cheaper but are they better
>>or as good as the Seagates? Better meaning more reliable.
>
>I haven't heard much good about the Barracudas.
>They tend to die unexpectedly and often, from what I hear.

If you don't cool them well either will fail quickly.
If you cool them properly, either will perform reliably.

It's really that simple. An ordinary desktop PC does not usually
have enough airflow to cool high performance drives sufficiently.

The Barracuda will have a slightly higher performance than the Grand Prix.
Price/performance depends on your source, of course.

Hint: If you get a noisy Grand Prix just return it. We fixed the noise
issue some time ago but there are probably still a lot of older drives
around that just have to wait until they end up in noise insensitive
environments.

Ralf-Peter
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