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From: ctwilson@mercury.interpath.net (Tom Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: List of recommended hardware components
Date: 16 Feb 1995 22:56:20 -0500
Organization: Interpath -- Public Access UNIX for North Carolina
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Message-ID: <3i16p4$a2q@mercury.interpath.net>
References: <3g890k$cbl@ionews.io.org> <D3Mz2E.Cqr@txnews.amd.com> <D3nryK.2u0@bonkers.taronga.com> <D3up05.K3t@pluto.rain.com>
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In article <D3up05.K3t@pluto.rain.com>,
Perry Hutchison <perryh@pluto.rain.com> wrote:
:Newsgroups trimmed and followups set.
:
:In article <D3nryK.2u0@bonkers.taronga.com>
:peter@bonkers.taronga.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
:> Doug Puchalski <drp@dvorak.amd.com> wrote:
:> >So what about Quantum drives?  They also have a 5yr warranty.
:> I like Quantums ... they and Maxtor have always been solid and trouble-free.
:
:I take it you have not been bitten by the infamous sticktion problem
:with the Quantum ProDrive 105S.  Cost Sun and Sun owners a bundle a
:few years back.

That was reportedly caused by a bad batch of lubricant...I have yet to
hear of another serious problem with *any other* Quantum line...
I ones I own and have owned work/worked great...no complaints about
the ones in the HP workstation I use, either.


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