From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun May 21 00:28:35 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id AAA26087 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 21 May 1995 00:28:35 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id AAA26080 ; Sun, 21 May 1995 00:28:34 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.cdrom.com: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: Amancio Hasty cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 4gig drive for $1099 In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 20 May 95 15:02:23 PDT." <9505202219.AA04386@ baycon.org > Date: Sun, 21 May 1995 00:28:33 -0700 Message-ID: <26079.801041313@freefall.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > NCA in Sunnyvale, Ca., has a special for 4gig quantum disk drives for > $1099 . > > I almost feel morally obligated to buy one :) Is this the Grand Prix? I wouldn't touch one with a stick. I've purchased about 7 of these drives in the last 4 months and 5 of them are already dead. After the 3rd one croaked I stopped replacing them and exchanged them forSeagate Hawk drives, all of which have been working flawlessly. I know that WC has some static problems that tends to kill equipment before its time, but this problem has NOT been seen with the Barracuda or Hawk drives, all of which live in the same environment, so I think that this is statistically significant. It's a pity, since I *really liked* the GP, it just seems like Quantum is having some rather severe quality control problems with them. Jordan