Quantum or Western Digital?

messiah · Post by **messiah** » Thu Apr 05, 2001 4:44 pm

What would you suggest?

Both are 30gig/7200rpm

g-c0de · Post by **g-c0de** » Thu Apr 05, 2001 4:54 pm

western digital!!!

hashman · Post by **hashman** » Thu Apr 05, 2001 5:03 pm

i would suggest ibm

quantum would be my second choice

messiah · Post by **messiah** » Thu Apr 05, 2001 5:11 pm

I do heavy multimedia editing.

AVI/Audio and some developing. I was looking for a pimp little multimedia drive, and found the Quantum series to be one of the favored choices- Hell, even the benchmarks on the drives seem pretty impressive. So far I think im going to go with the Quantum

Anyone else, have any thoughts?

yikes · Post by **yikes** » Thu Apr 05, 2001 5:22 pm

I own a qwantom myself and it kicks ass

yikes · Post by **yikes** » Thu Apr 05, 2001 5:23 pm

30gb se 7200rpm

cy · Post by cy » Thu Apr 05, 2001 5:23 pm

I have a Quantum fireball 30G/7200rpm and it kicks bud!!

Brent · Post by **Brent** » Thu Apr 05, 2001 7:34 pm

IBM or Quantum, then next in line is Western Digital

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Thu Apr 05, 2001 7:52 pm

IBM, Maxtor, Quantum, never western digital, they suck IMO, friend had 3 different ones at one point, they were horrible, corrupted data, bad sectors, on a 20 gig HDD he lost 4 gigs to bad sectors when the power went out, he had a surge protector and turned it off right way, even though power WAS out.

RoundEye · Post by **RoundEye** » Thu Apr 05, 2001 8:00 pm

I have a Quantum and a Maxtor. Both ATA-66, 7200 RPM. Bought both of them before Maxtor bought Quantum. The Maxtor benchmarks a little faster than the Quantum. Both are in the same computer as masters on their own IDE channel.

I had two Quantums fail in a row. Thats why I have the Maxtor, because Quantum was out of stock and I had to wait six weeks for a replacement. I also found out, Quantum drives are warrantied from time of manufacture, not date of sale. Found this out when the second drive failed. Luckly I kept all the paper work and serial numbers. The replacement drive I was sent was out of warranty due to the serial numbers. It took a lot of explaining to get an RMA for the second failed drive.

I won't buy any more Quantum drives.

Never had any problems with Maxtor drives and I have two of them, one is about three years old. All these problems may have changed now that Maxtor owns Quantum.

syncmaster · Post by **syncmaster** » Thu Apr 05, 2001 8:05 pm

Western Digital all the way .
Quantum is great ,but some series was BAD aples ..

WD had never make a bad aple ..

IBM sounds great drives ,but so far the WD and quantum have so some good long lasting products.
IBM will prove the quality of they drives in time ..

I am saying that i have 2 Fireballs 1280 megs still running for 5 years .
And the first WD 7200rpm model 9.2 GB for 1 year and still running .
Speed and quality and long life goes together ,if you wan to call a hard disk good one !!

David · Post by **David** » Thu Apr 05, 2001 9:19 pm

It is nice that we all have our picks....

I use 2 45gig Maxtor ata100 7200rpm in RAID. I have a ball doing vid editing with my system (Adobe Premiere chiefly).

Scsi would be another consideration....

syncmaster · Post by **syncmaster** » Fri Apr 06, 2001 12:28 am

Hahahahaaaaaa

Maxtor is Quantum boy , they take them over.

Any way be happy

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Fri Apr 06, 2001 2:33 am

Originally posted by syncmaster:
WD had never make a bad aple ..

They made a few, their newer drives seem to be ok, but i like to give it a year after a bad chunk have come out, was at compusa looking at radeons and the desk dude said they had a bunch of WDs returned this year cuz of different problems from bad sectors to drive power failures.

syncmaster · Post by **syncmaster** » Fri Apr 06, 2001 7:12 pm

Ok i will not play the god ,supporting my opinion .
But most of the times, some idiot will drop a cargo panel with hard drives in the transportation ,and actuly this damaged disks will come to the market with out any one to have an idea ..

The broken Fireballs ,i do not remember the model of them ,it was before 2 years actuly ,was problematic ,or dead on arival.

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[ 04-06-2001: Message edited by: syncmaster ]

Duzmor · Post by **Duzmor** » Sun Apr 08, 2001 8:10 am

There is a good test over at www.tomshardware.com on Fujitsu-Maxtor-Quantum IDE Drives
Duzmor