[geeks] Cheap refurb SCSI drives?

[John Francini]

As another poster wrote, no, the drives advertised are Atlas IVs, 
which are Quantum designs derived directly from DEC designs.

They work. Well.

One of the biggest disservices the Atlas line ever suffered was the 
fact that when Maxtor bought Quantum they didn't put the high-end 
SCSI stuff under a different brand name.

Most IT people, quite deservedly, consider that "Maxtor = junk".

Which means that they're probably having (and will contine to have) a 
tough time in the enterprise storage market.

John Francini


At 17:54 -0400 10/17/06, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
>Tue, 17 Oct 2006 @ 12:27 -0500, Lionel Peterson said:
>
>>  Just a datapoint: 74 GB Maxtor (I know, I know) 10,000 RPM U320 SCSI
>>  drive, $59.97
>
>It's probably like Maxtor's SATA drives: an IDE drive with a cheap
>converter board glommed onto it.
>
>Maxtor only fairly recently started making real SATA drives.
>
>I'd imagine their "SCSI" is a conversion too.
>
>Anyone have one who could check?
>
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