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In article <4aqgv3$kmk@bocanews.bocaraton.ibm.com>,
Timur Tabi <timur@vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>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

Hm.  I've had experiences with 2 different FW Quantums.  
One was fast, one was half-fast.   At the $691 price you are
probably talking about the VP.   I did measured/timed reads &
writes through the file system under SCO at about 1.75MB/sec
for 100 Meg files with the VP.

I did measured/timed reads/writes at about 3.5MB/sec write and
about 4.2MB/sec reads on a 2940UW Adaptec and 3.25MB/sec to
about 4MB/sec on a DPT PCI.

>2. the price is good

The XP is in the mid $800 range.  It's printed specs show it to
be about 10% faster than the Seagate Barracudas.  I have those
in a similarly configured system but never got as fast as the
XP.  HOWEVER - similar is NOT indentical.   

>3. anyone has any recommendation for a different 2GB drive

VP for price and the XP for performance.



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