Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!uunet!cimshop!davidm From: cimshop!davidm@uunet.UU.NET (David S. Masterson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.marketplace Subject: Re: Seeking buying advice for Quantum 105M SCSI HD Message-ID: Date: 24 Jan 91 19:07:52 GMT References: <1991Jan24.034254.14482@uncecs.edu> Sender: davidm@cimshop.UUCP Distribution: comp Organization: Consilium Inc., Mountain View, California Lines: 35 In-reply-to: ruslan@uncecs.edu's message of 24 Jan 91 03:42:54 GMT X-Posting-Software: GNUS 3.12 [ NNTP-based News Reader for GNU Emacs ] >>>>> On 24 Jan 91 03:42:54 GMT, ruslan@uncecs.edu (Robin C. LaPasha) said: Robin> We wanna buy a (new) Quantum 105 meg hard disk. Quantums are good drives and seem well respected. Supra told me that there testing of Quantum drives show an average on-time of 5 years before failure whereas other maker drives (unspecified) show a 2 year mean time before failure. Sounds like your talking about the Quantum P105S drive (P means Prodrive and S means SCSI). Robin> In the February 91 Computer Shopper, page 427, we see an ad by the Robin> "Hard Drives International" company, which has (a/the) Quantum 105 meg Robin> SCSI drive for $499. Has anybody got any stories to tell about these Robin> guys, bad or good? (They also have the tradenames "PowerDrive" when Robin> they're speaking to Mac folks... and the ad says the company's a Robin> division of "Insight Distribution Network," if that provides any info.) I had ordered a Seagate ST277R from Hard Drives International almost two years ago (it recently went belly-up due to stiction) and just ordered a Quantum P210S from them. So you can see they've been around awhile. Their prices are a little bit higher than what you might find elsewhere, but the difference is usually not worth the time and effort of finding another reputable dealer. Their tech support is really good, but they are not an Amiga shop (one or two of the techs may have had an Amiga at one time), so don't expect answers on questions directly concerned with the Amiga (like why the controller won't work with the drive). In general, they know the drives and can provide information about the makeup of the drives (as it happened, they sold me the P210S before their tech support had had a chance to find out about them). -- ==================================================================== David Masterson Consilium, Inc. (415) 691-6311 640 Clyde Ct. uunet!cimshop!davidm Mtn. View, CA 94043 ==================================================================== "If someone thinks they know what I said, then I didn't say it!"