Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!hellgate.utah.edu!csn!ccncsu!ncuug!miranda!jafo From: jafo@miranda.UUCP (Sean Reifschneider) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Cheap Hard Drives? Message-ID: Date: 4 Mar 91 04:02:38 GMT References: <45927@nigel.ee.udel.edu> <970@caslon.cs.arizona.edu> <1113@ra.MsState.Edu> <1951@public.BTR.COM> Organization: I'm not Organized Lines: 38 In article <1951@public.BTR.COM> thad@public.BTR.COM (Thaddeus P. Floryan) writes: >In article <1113@ra.MsState.Edu> jra1@ra.MsState.Edu (Mephisto) writes: >>Everyone seems to love Quantum drives so much. >>What about Seagate? I see that they are cheaper, >>but what about reliability? I now have a 50MB Quantum (Came with the 3000-25/50), and a Maxtor LXT-200S 200MB hard drive. The Maxtor I got a month ago for $849 (After shipping, tax...). The Quantum Pro-200S 200MBer would have been about $950 before tax. The Quantum drive I have now is just a tad faster than the Quantum, but is almost quieter (not even noticeable). I'd probably do the same again. Micropolis drives are supposed to be the most reliable. >Seagate horror stories abound in all the newsgroups, user groups, trade >journals, etc. out of all proportion to their (large) market share. > >I've had 11 (eleven) Seagate drives (ST251, ST157, etc.) and they have all >failed with stiction (static friction). My email file of Seagate failures >from around the world now exceeds 3MB (4 Amiga floppies). I just sold a 2 year old Seagate 277-N (65MB) to a friend of mine. It had worked for two years, no problems. He has it less than a week, and the drive fails to come up on him (after a power down). I left my system on 24 hours a day, and he cycles the power on his a few times a week. I guess if you leave them powered on all the time, they'll work. The Seagate 296N (85MB) is a great price at ~$400, but then you also have to add another $100 on to that to get an external power supply/case to keep it powered on all the time (if you like to shut down your system). I'd buy the Seagate for a swap only drive (with UNIX). That's my $.02 worth. Sean -- From the desk of Sean Reifschneider. Isn't Amiga UUCP great? Thanks Matt. uunet.uu.net!ccncsu.colostate.edu!ncuug!miranda!jafo