From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 20 13:29:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA17857 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 13:29:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from federation.addy.com (federation.addy.com [207.239.68.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA17842 for ; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 13:29:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fbsdlist@federation.addy.com) Received: from localhost (fbsdlist@localhost) by federation.addy.com (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id QAA13014; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 16:28:11 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 16:28:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Cliff Addy To: Vallo Kallaste cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Quantum hard drives - comments ? In-Reply-To: <19980817184209.43183@matti.ee> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 17 Aug 1998, Vallo Kallaste wrote: > I want to hear comments about Quantum Viking II hard drives. Are these drives > good for use with NCR875 controller ? I have heard that some other Quantum > drives have faulty firmware, so I need comments from real-life before buying. I can't speak specifically to Viking II's, but I can tell you that Quantum is permanently off our purchase list. We've had nearly 100% failure rates on them, only Micropolis was worse. Our favorites are IBM, then Seagate. It's astounding how cool the IBM drives run, the Quantums nearly burn your hand while the IBMs are barely above room temp. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message