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> A dealer recommended the Quantum 2.2GB fast/wide SCSI drive (8.5ms
> access time), and quoted me a price of $691.  I was wondering if:
> 
> 1. anyone had any good or bad experiences with this drive
> 
> 2. the price is good
> 
> 3. anyone has any recommendation for a different 2GB drive

I recently integrated 8 Quantum VP32210 Capella drives.  They cost me
about $750 each six weeks ago.  I'm not sure if this is the same one 
your dealer recommended, but here goes anyway.

They were placed into some 133Mhz Pentiums running Win95.  I had a
little trouble with the hardware detect phase, but that was operator
head space.

One drive was DOA, and that is why you pay a little extra by buying 
from a local vendor -- I got it replaced in two hours...

I didn't run any intense benchmarks, but I loaded up Heretic, and the
three megabyte .zip file unzipped itself in a flash.  Win95 ran very
smoothly (I did have 64MB in these units)...

These Pentiums had a DTC PCI SCSI-2 F/W adapter; a Taiwan clone, but
nevertheless apparently very fast.

As far a temperature is concerned, I thought they were running hot,
but my hardware guru said they were fine.

Noise -- very acceptable, hardly noticeable.

Overall impression:  Very good drive, with the caveat that I didn't 
do a very intensive benchmark of drive performance, so your mileage 
may vary...

I would buy them again.

Good luck,
Kevin