Re: Which hard drive brand ?

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From: TDI User
Date: Wed, 03 Jul 1996 00:00

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In article <31d8423a.0@sylvia.tummy.com>,
Sean Reifschneider <jafo@ariel.tummy.com> wrote:
>In article <4r3at2$5mn@godzilla.zeta.org.au>,
>Nick Andrew <nick@zeta.org.au> wrote:
>>In <31D3FF4D.36FC19A9@instanet.com> Glen Duncan <gduncan@instanet.com> writes:
>>I own several Seagate drives (size 600M to 4.2G) and only had 1 fail in
>>the last 3 years. That was a 1G SCSI (the first I bought) and I had a
>>replacement in my hand 24 hours later (which is still working).
>
>I don't have any experience with Quantum's newer drives, but I do with Quantum
>Support.  No cross-shipping was a BIG sore spot for me.  I went with
>Micropolis to replace the Quantum, and I've had 3 drives (1.7, 4 and 4GB)
>working for 3 years, 8 months and 4 months now.  No problems so far.
>

I bought 4 4.3GB Quantum drive in the past two years.  Two of them die.
I also have 2 seagate ST15150 (4.3G Baracuda) which still works fine.

-N

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