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From: jmeissen@oregon.oacis.org ( Staff OACIS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Compare Quantam and Seagate
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Date: 24 Jul 90 23:54:30 GMT
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Organization: Oregon Advanced Computing Institute (OACIS), Beaverton, OR
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In article <25018.26ac29cd@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> markv@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
>So, I can say, I'll go for a Quantum over a Seagate any time.
>(Although my two current 20MB drives are Miniscribes and have been
>well behaved.)

Well, in spite of the fact that all the repair shops consider them highly
reliable, I just paid to have my 2 year old Miniscibe 3650 (40mb) repaired.
Electonics failure (track-zero detect). The Lynx group at Epyx used Seagate
drives almost exclusively, and although I can't speak for the rest of the 
company, our group never had any problems.

Seagate is one of the highest volume small disk drive manufacturers. I'm not
surprised that they also have the highest volume of complaints. It would
be interesting to see some real honest figures in terms of % of drives
sold.

(I, too, would go for a Quantum over a Seagate, all things being equal. 30%
higher price is far from equal, though.)
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