Re: anyone using these disks with VMS?

From: Rich Jordan (jordan_at_ccs4vms.com)
Date: 08/20/04 

Date: 20 Aug 2004 07:24:31 -0700

helbig@astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---remove CLOTHES to reply) wrote in message news:<cg33d9$af3$2@online.de>...
> In article <10i9uno9cs5j60b@news.supernews.com>, "Island Computers USA"
> <dbturner@islandco.com.nospam> writes:
>
> > Seagates yes
> > Quantum - no way
>
> The models I mentioned?
>
> Talking only original DEC disks for the moment, I have some rebadged
> Seagates and some rebadged Quantums, though more of the former than the
> latter. The only disk I've ever had fail was a rebadged Seagate
> Barracuda (2 GB). Small-number statistics, of course. Is the
> traditional wisdom Seagate better than Quantum better than Connor borne
> out by the experience of others here?

Not the models you listed. Older Quantums (1 - 4GB, especially the
DEC-designed DSP models, are all still running, though some are quite
noisy. I've had a couple older Seagate rebadges fail (ST15150N/W),
and one ST19171WC/RZ1DB unit. Newer disks: mostly Seagate, all still
running.

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