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Article #67Re: 4GB Drives: Who's better Seagate or Quantum
From: Ron Menninga
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 1995 06:10
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 1995 06:10
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vp24njcb@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu wrote: >In article <46hcd8$t18@elaine16.Stanford.EDU>, kla@leland.Stanford.EDU (Earl Mitchell) writes: >> >>I'm looking for good reliable 4GB SCSI drive for my PC. >>What should I go for the Seagate Barracuda or Quantum Grand PRix? >>The Quantums appear significantly cheaper but are they better >>or as good as the Seagates? Better meaning more reliable. >I haven't heard much good about the Barracudas. >They tend to die unexpectedly and often, from what I hear. >Just my opinion. We have 3 Barracudas in our Novell server and had to install another fan to blow directly on them to cool them down otherwise they tended to die when put under a heavy load (nightly backups). No problems since I put the fan on them though.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!ix.netcom.com!netnews From: menninga@ix.netcom.com (Ron Menninga) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.periphs.scsi Subject: Re: 4GB Drives: Who's better Seagate or Quantum Date: Fri, 27 Oct 1995 06:10:00 GMT Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <46shck$bqf@ixnews5.ix.netcom.com> References: <46hcd8$t18@elaine16.Stanford.EDU> <46hj2p$r6t@azure.acsu.buffalo.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: ix-wc7-27.ix.netcom.com X-NETCOM-Date: Fri Oct 27 11:08:20 PM PDT 1995 X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82