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Robert Paul Pham wrote:
> 
> Dimitri Maziuk <emaziuk@alpha2.curtin.edu.au> writes:
> 
> >John Clarke wrote:
> >>
> >... snip ...
> >> Seagate seem to be OK, but I've noticed a tendency to overheat and die on
> >> several different models (other drives in the same bay worked fine).  I've
> >> never had a Quantum drive fail, but then maybe I've been lucky
> >... snip ...
> 
> >Yes, you have.  I've got a Quantum Maverick doing the overheating trick
> >exactly as described above.   Never had a problem with a WD Caviar sitting
> >right next to it ( and WD is much quieter :).
>                                    ^^^^^^^
>                                    AGREED
> 
> With so many happy quantum customers here, I was going to keep my mouth
> shut, but just about the only thing I liked about my last quantum was
> that it was or seems fast, but it died under warranty and the shop I got
> it from let me exchange it for a WD caviar much quieter :-), infact the
> quantum used to wake me up at night sometime with its occasional high
> pitch yawn just as I'd fall as sleep.
> 
> BTW, I leave Linux on all the time, is there a util to spin down IDE drives?
> 
> Cheers,
> Paul Pham
> ppham@mailbox.uq.oz.au




I've got a 1GB Maxtor and a 203MB Conner.  The Conner I've had for YEARS!  It's slow and
loud, but the darn thing just keeps on ticking!  Never a problem with it.  The Maxtor is
reasonably fast (Even better now that I've upgraded to Linux 2.0 - it supports PIO mode 4),
not all that loud, and so far, not a problem.

Wayne