On Fri, 26 Sep 1997, Jukka Marin wrote:
> Does anyone have experience with quantum SCSI disks?  I have had four
> Quantum Empire 1080's (three of which have died).  Now I have a 2.5 GB
> Atlas (about 6 months old) which started giving me medium errors today:
> 
> I guess this one is about to die as well?
> 
> Does anyone have ANY Quantum disk (over 1 GB) that WORKS?  I have a few old
> Quantums (80 MB, 170 MB etc) and they work just fine, but these newer disks
> always seem to die within 12 months of purchase.

Hmm... all of my Quantums have been working fine for me... Quantum LPS105
(I have no idea, 6 years old?), Fireball 540 (4 yrs old), Lightning 730 (3
yrs old or so), Capella 2.1G (2 yrs), Atlas 2.1G (1 yr), and Atlas 4.2G
(bought it used, probably about 1 yr old). 

I've heard that a lot of people have problems with the Empire drives
though. However, the Atlas should be fine if you keep it cool enough. I
have a separate fan for each of my Atlas drives.

If you want to avoid Quantum, you might try IBM or Seagate.
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