[geeks] Cheap refurb SCSI drives?

[Michael Parson]

On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 11:15:08AM -0500, Phil Brutsche wrote:
> Sandwich Maker wrote:
> > i wonder if the dec disk folks went to quantum and now maxtor?  that
> > would be an indication of future quality.
> 
> Would it?
> 
> Maxtor bought out Quantum several years ago - I recall buying "Maxtor"
> retail drives that turned out to be Quantums in 2001-2002 - and Maxtor's
> hard drives continue to be junk.

And not all Quantum drives were all that good either.  Ever use a
Quantum Fireball SCSI drive?  They were fine by themselves, but if you
put ANYTHING else on the SCSI bus, you'd have problems, those drives
didn't support reselection and would cause bus resets.

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Michael Parson
mparson at bl.org