is this hard drive a good value?

[Paulr]

I'll still stick by 'Get IBM cause they is good'
Quantum used to have the fastest IDE drives on the market.
It's been a while since they held that title.
It was when they released the 2GB Quantum FireBall.
Nothing on the market could touch them!
HD's now a days are very much or a muchness, I don't think there is such a thing as a 'bad' make of HD, it's just some are better than others.

[Beezer]

Here's my 2 cents on drives (from a head manufacture's view point)...
WD has indeed cleaned up their act in the past year. They have also ended their contract with IBM because of sub par quality they were receiving from them....
IBM is kinda struggling now -- be careful about claiming they are the "best", because the "best" changes about every 6 months...
Quantum makes very good quality drives now as does Maxtor. By the way, these two companies have now merged....

[Laurie]

Hey Gurm, check out this URL:

http://www.canada.buy.com/

I didn't know buy.com had a canadian site until after it was closed.



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Asus P3B-F, PIII 550 @ 616, G400 MAX + RR-G
The more I know, the more I know I don't know.

[nehalmistry]

I finally got it!

I got that quantum 30gb.... runs great! the difference in speed is noticeable... although not as much as i thought..

and as for sound... the old quantum was super quiet... this new one sounds like a freaking AK-47.... but for that price its worth it

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P5A-B MoBo w/AMD K6-266@300 (100mhz FSB)
Matrox Milleniumm G200 AGP (oh, lets party)
Creative SB Awe32 (a classic, superb card)
Realtek 8029A NIC Card
64meg 100mhz SDRam
Ali V agp chipset (2x)
30 gig HD 7200 RPM UDMA 66
6.4 gig HD 5400 RPM UDMA 66
ALI 1543 IDE Controller (ATA 33)
Optiquest Q53 15" Monitor
Actima 36X CD-Rom
Windows 95B
ICQ UIN: 24730025

[Johnny Ray]

I've only had two hard drives personally fail on me: a WD SCSI (what a toad! gee, what a surpise they got out of the SCSI market) and a Fujitsu. At work, we had 10 computers purchased at the same time from a supplier with either Seagate or Fujitsu hard drives in them. 4 of the 5 Fujitsu drives have now failed after 3 years; the Seagates are all fine.

John