Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!emory!mephisto!udel!princeton!njin!limonce From: limonce@pilot.njin.net (Tom Limoncelli) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Compare Quantam and Seagate? Summary: not my funniest top-10 list, but decent for 3:30am! Keywords: quantum seagate joke top10 (or top10N if you're a seagate scsi joke) Message-ID: Date: 22 Jul 90 07:59:17 GMT References: <1990Jul21.041844.23344@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Distribution: comp Organization: Drew University/NJIN Lines: 60 In article <1990Jul21.041844.23344@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> mkiteam@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (E.Japel) writes: > [what's the difference between Quantum and Seagate drives] This sounds like a job for "Top Ten Man"! By day, just a regular guy... but when the needs calls he rips off his shirt to reveal his hidden negligee... ooops ...his hidden SuperMan outfit with a big "10" on his chest. Top Ten Differences Between Seagate & Quantum 10. Seagate thinks that "autopark" is a neat feature... in fact, they might add it to some more of their models next year. 9. Quantum gave a bad shipment to Apple and a lot of Mac geeks couldn't deal. Seagate gives everyone a bad shipment! 8. The famous "Seagate ST251 stiction problem" happens 10 days after the warrentee is over. I've never seen a Quantum die. 7. Seagate admitted they don't know anything about drives that are large and high-speed so they bought Impress. Quantum always made big, fast hard drives. Insiders claim that when they stamp the "Seagate" sticker over the "Impress" label you can hear the drive cry, scream, and it lowers its head in shame. 6. Whenever a Seagate problem is reported on the net, someone reposts a very long article describing exactly why not to buy Seagate drives. Gee, maybe we'll see that posting again. (We just post that weekly?) 5. A Seagate customer is likely to be heard saying, "The 32meg partition limit doesn't both me". A Quantum user is likely to be heard saying, "Hey, remember when 4 MIPS was a fast computer?" 4. Seagate used to be considered a good drive... in the 70's I think. 3. Seagate thinks that SCSI is "new". 2. Quantum drives don't come with a sheet that says, "Warning: Do not operate this drive upside-down." Seagates do. And the number one difference between Quantum and Seagate is: 1. Madonna's ex-art dealer owns a Quantum! (It's true! It's true!) -Tom Top 5 Disclaimers for this post: 5 -- I'm not involved with Seagate except I USED to use their products. 4 -- I'm not involved with Quantum execpt I have used their drives. 3 -- I really do know Madonna's ex-art dealer. 2 -- I wrote this at 3:30am 1 -- This posting was not an excuse to show off my new .signature quote. -- tlimonce@drew.edu Tom Limoncelli +1 201 408 5389 tlimonce@drew.uucp tlimonce@drew.Bitnet My new philosophy on life: limonce@pilot.njin.net "Vogue 'til you puke"