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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!news.leonardo.net!news.cyberport.com!news.supernet.net!news.thenet.net!xara.net!emerald.xara.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!news.iadfw.net!usenet From: Andi Baritchi <andi@airmail.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Recommended SCSI hard drive for BSD system Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 16:53:27 -0500 Organization: UTA (CSE) Lines: 36 Message-ID: <324706D7.EA8@airmail.net> References: <324703FC.41C6@austin.ibm.com> Reply-To: andi@airmail.net NNTP-Posting-Host: dal18-08.ppp.iadfw.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (Win95; U) To: Tushar Patel <tpatel@austin.ibm.com> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:4956 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:27830 Tushar Patel wrote: > > Hi, > > I just had bad experience with segate drive. so, before I buy new > drive I want to hear from you. > > How are the following drives: > > QUANTUM FIREBALL 1280S 630C > LPS340S 020B > > > Please make suggestions. > > Thanks, > Tushar I would stay away from Quanum drives in general. I have had too much trouble with their high end drives (4GB Grand Prix's and Atlases). I don't know about the fireballs, but they're probably just smaller, cheaper, and lower quality versions of their big brohters. I use Seagate Barracudas exclusively and they're great. I too know about seagate's bad reputation in the past, but the cudas are top-notch (I'm not really familiar with their low-end drives either, though). If you've got the money to get Barracudas (and the 2GB's aren't worth it: $750 for ST32550N (2GB FastSCSI-2), $950 for ST15150N (4GB FastSCSI-2). Who knows, the Quantums might be good! But I wouldn't risk it. I've never had a bad Barracuda, and I've used many. But I've had MANY bad Quantums (out of MANY + 1). Just my $.02 (or $.03 in some areas), Andi Baritchi andi@airmail.net