[aclug-L] Re: UHOH!!!!

[Jonathan Hall <jonhall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In my experience, Quantum and Maxtor are (sorry to say this...) the worst
brands still in existance.  :-)  Connor was worse, but they're (thankfully)
out of business now.

Of the two, I'd say Quantum is better than Maxtor usually.

I really like Fujitsu for IDE hard drives, although I'm sure you can find
someone who will swear they suck, too.

I also like Western Digital and Seagate for IDE drives.  I have less
experience with SCSI.  I think Quantum may actually make some decent SCSI
hard drives (I have a 2.2gb Quantum SCSI hard drive I got for free... have
no problems with it :-)

I got the 10.2gb Western Digital drive that I use in my workstation about
6-8 months ago for $140.  Then about 3-4 months ago I got a 17.2gb Fujitsu
drive for another computer... spent $135 on that, I think. :-)

Before you buy a new drive, go ahead and run fsck on the drive... it's
possible it's just FS corruption.  But don't hold your breath is my advice.


On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 12:43:20AM -0600, gLaNDix wrote:
> what would you reccommend for a good brand of hard drive?  i've got 2
> quantums and a maxtor in this system...  one of the quantums sux (i'm on
> my 5th one of that model)...  i'd like to get something b/n 15 and 20
> gig...  and something that's not too hard on the wallet...  EIDE is fine
> w/ me
> 
> jesse
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