Quantum Fireball Hard Drive Quality

[locutus4]

OK someone here wants to sell me one, but don't know much about Quantum at all. Its a 20.5gb quantum fireball plus hard drive. Do these things last or will they self destruct like most of the IBM's I have heard about.

 

[WarCon]

I haven't heard anything good about them, if that answers your question and have heard plenty bad.

 

[meefmah]

A warranty can be a beautiful thing. I like my HDDs to come with one.
I have a Fireball LCT, it's a noisy pile, but it still runs perfectly(a speculation, as I haven't booted the old system in 9mos). The HDD you get will be unique. It could arrive DOA, or it could last decades. You pays your money and you takes your chances. I personally, wouldn't buy a used HDD. But if it's only something like $20, then whatever, get it and.....nah I still wouldn't do it.

 

[MWink]

I've never seen a working Quantum drive that is over 1GB... And you wouldn't believe how many I've seen. :Q

 

[Shagga]

I have had a QF Plus 20gig HD in my system for a long time. Unlike ppl who have heard of problems with them, I persoanlly have never had one. The drive is still going stong. It must be 4 years old. If they were that bad do you think Maxtor would have taken them over!

 

[Vegito]

I own a lot of quantums.. many of them are bad... only the scsi atlas hasn't fail yet. The rma fireball i got back was even bad after couple of weeks. Luckily those had 3 year warranty. But not anymore. I'm switching to all seagate or wd.

 

[Sunner]

I havent had any experience with them recently(read 2-3 years), but back in the day, they were dropping like flies.

I sorta viewed Quantum the same way I did Seagate, crappy IDE drives, good SCSI drives.

 

[BUTCH1]

I've got a Quantum 20.5 running in my system, 2 yrs no problems.....

 

[boyRacer]

:Q Now i'm worried... *knock on wood* i've got 3 40gb Quantum Fireball AS in a RAID array...no problems so far... none at all.