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On Wed, 18 Feb 1998, Justin T. Gibbs wrote:

> >I'm shocked to hear that Western Digital SCSI drives rate really low. All
> >my illusions (delusions?) are shattered. Who is King of the Mountain for
> >SCSI-3 drives in terms of reliability and performance? I have a Fast/Wide
> >controller and I am looking at drives.
> 
> Without a doubt, IBM.

  I have some doubts about that.  Seagate Barracuda work really well
too.  20 drives in 24x7 so far, and no failures.

  Of course, anything is better than cheap Quantum junk.  Of the 5 or so,
Quantum drives we have, one is dead and one is "unreliable".

> >Thanks,
> >Marty
> >mlghome@home.com
> 
> --
> Justin

Tom


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