Here comes the 10TB HGST beasts!

[ClockHound]

"Quantum Fireball"

The name that chills the data in my veins.....not the most reliable hard drive era.

Always thought that was a bad marketing pitch - something that must store your precious data safely and reliably called something that will destroy your data. And in my case did. ;-)

Thanks for the memories...it's all I have left.

 

[Soulkeeper]

"Quantum Fireball"

The name that chills the data in my veins.....not the most reliable hard drive era.

Always thought that was a bad marketing pitch - something that must store your precious data safely and reliably called something that will destroy your data. And in my case did. ;-)

Thanks for the memories...it's all I have left.

The quantum fireball was the only hard drive I literally saw fire/sparks come out of as a trace on the pcb blew. I managed to solder a jumper wire on and it worked again for another year. Great memories indeed.

 

[PliotronX]

You can say that again. Back in 2000 when bought my massive 20GB Quantum Fireball Plus LM, I never thought I'd fill it up.

Fast-forward 14 years, we're talking 10TB HDDs, an my picture folder alone is 44GB... :hmm:

Amazing... 😎

Are there videos mixed in with the pictures? Decent size collection there ()🙂

 

[Insert_Nickname]

"Quantum Fireball"

The name that chills the data in my veins.....not the most reliable hard drive era.

Always thought that was a bad marketing pitch - something that must store your precious data safely and reliably called something that will destroy your data. And in my case did. ;-)

Thanks for the memories...it's all I have left.

The quantum fireball was the only hard drive I literally saw fire/sparks come out of as a trace on the pcb blew. I managed to solder a jumper wire on and it worked again for another year. Great memories indeed.

Good times indeed. Though to be fair it was for performance I bought it, not reliability. Though I have to say HDD reliability issues weren't limited to Quantum alone, remember the IBM DeathStars...?

 

[PliotronX]

Good times indeed. Though to be fair it was for performance I bought it, not reliability. Though I have to say HDD reliability issues weren't limited to Quantum alone, remember the IBM DeathStars...?

Funnily enough, through all my nervous years of using a DeathStar 75GXP, it is still working with just a few reallocated sectors in my mother's computer... now for why I don't have similar luck with Seagates :hmm:

 

[Insert_Nickname]

Are there videos mixed in with the pictures? Decent size collection there ()🙂

No, just 10 years of D-SLR photos + change... 😀

Funnily enough, through all my nervous years of using a DeathStar 75GXP, it is still working with just a few reallocated sectors in my mother's computer... now for why I don't have similar luck with Seagates :hmm:

They were (are) usually fine with adequate active cooling. If I remember correctly they also don't like RAID.

Funnily enough I've always had pretty good luck with Seagate... :hmm:

Though to be completely fair I have had issues with drives from every single manufacturer out there, so luck of the draw plays a large role.

 

[SolMiester]

Are there videos mixed in with the pictures? Decent size collection there ()🙂

Bet he doesn't use thumbnail to view the folder content!...LOL