From: Mark Bell (bytehead_at_bellatlantic.net)
Date: Fri Jan 07 2000 - 20:27:45 EST
At 12:50 PM 01/07/2000 -0800, Benjamin Koh wrote:
>I have had only one problem with a Quantum, a 5.25" 1.2GB Bigfoot I
>purchased that went bad in less than a year. Replaced it with a 3.5"
>3.2GB IBM, no problems. IMHO it's worth the extra few $ for an IBM
>drive. YMMV for 2.5" drives of course. The 120MB Connor drive the
>Bigfoot replaced was still working fine the last time I used it (as a
>backup when the Bigfoot failed).
We had numerous 5.25" Big Foot 1.2gig drives fail in Compaq Deskpro P133's
and P166's. It was easily 1 out of every 7.
>STeve Andre' wrote:
>>
>> I know there are people who will wildly and flamingly disagree with me on
>> this, but I still think that overall, Seagate drives (and quantum, now
>> that they're owned by Seagate) are of less well built than other drives.
So true. I've seen numerous Seagate drives go belly up with a much higher
failure rate than other drives we've deployed outside of bigfoot units.
Heck, I had a personal Seagate 2.1gig Medalist unit go belly up.
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