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Man, really bad drives.. scares me off
But the later Quantums, i only had a 6.4 CX in the office that failed
(probably power surge) - it turns on, gives the green LED a half second on
and nothing else. BIOS cannot detect it. Weird.
My personal Quantums were great, sold off a 5GB, still using a 20GB lct
series one..right now.. added on a AS Plus 30GB. Still running well. Then
added a 80GB Maxtor and another HDD controller (after Maxtor merged w/Qtm),
still OK.
Maxtor was bad in the pre-merger days. 2.5GB drive failed, and I managed to
resurrect it after 6 mths in the closet...quickly formatted it and sold it
off
All OEM drives.
"tc" <terrycassidy@msn.com> wrote in message
news:cTOxc.22103$NT6.14542@clgrps13...
| Strange.
| I had to change drive types as Quantum is no longer available. I built a
| desktop with a Seagate 120G SATA drive in February. It failed completely 2
| weeks ago. The Seagate I replaced it with lasted a whole week. Of course,
| these were OEM drives. Hopefully 3rd time lucky. Never ever had a failure
| with the many Quantums I have used and some are still in service.
| Terry
|
| "tuned by RÄZO" <NOSPAMmillajovovich@softhome.net> wrote in message
| news:2ionc4Fp336aU1@uni-berlin.de...
| > "Virkon" <santiagozx@yahoo.com> wrote in message
| > news:2imp09Fp6ej1U1@uni-berlin.de...
| > | I´m going to upgrade my laptop´s HDD and I have two options.:
| > |
| > | 1-Fujitsu MHT 2040 AH (5.400 rpm/ATA-100/8Mb. Buffer)
| > |
| > | 2-Seagate Momentus ST94811A (5.400 rpm/ATA-100/8Mb. Buffer)
| > |
| > | The price is almost the same... what do you think?
| > | Thanks!
| > |
| > |
| >
| > Seagate. Makes the most shock tolerant drives for the desktop, and
laptops
| > too I believe. Reliable as hell, got one 420MB SGT here that still runs.
| > Quantum ProDrive (or similar name) 420MB around the same purchase date,
| > failed long time ago.
| >
| >
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