Quantum or IBM hard drive? Which one is better?

[hongkongwong]

I am curious as to which one of these are better? I am talking about IDE 7200 rpm. Any advice would be well appreciated. Thanks.

 

[Pariah]

Normally I would have recommended Quantum, as I own 2 myself. However, I have seen on other messageboards that Quantum is no longer RMA'ing drives. If your drive fails, they eventually mail you a check for what they think it is worth, which is basically nothing. This is an absolutely terrible policy and I have no idea why they would decide to do that. Go IBM regardless of which you think performs better.

 

[hongkongwong]

For reals? Thanks for the advice, I would have never known!

 

[pX]

I've been researching this exact question for a few days now, and I have come to the conclusion that if its between the 75GXP and the LM Plus, the 75GXP is the superior drive; at least accoring to benchmarks and such.
Of course its IMHO,

pX

 

[|TOAST|]

Built over 100 systems and upgraded many more... always put a quantum hard drive in them until my 20.5GB KX crapped out on me last fall... they 2 dayed me a replacement drive (BTW the replacement drive was made in China and is revision 2 while my broken one was revision 1 and made in Japan)... Ever since then I have used Seagate drives since they have the lowest RMA rate on IDE drives I believe (or they had it at the time). Not sure why I ditched the Quantum bandwagon at the time but I think I was pi$$ed that a 3 month old drive would just die on me... Their customer service couldn't have done much more for me though. Two day air shipping a drive across the US for free was pretty nice although I paid to send back the broken one. Weird thing is that I heard the IBM drives were better quality... I don't know. IMHO I would go for the IBM drive or a Seagate equivalent. I think hard drives just die more often due to their mechanically moving parts/servos. I am very unhappy to hear that Quantum now has taken that policy up for their RMA's... NOT GOOD and BEWARE!

 

[RC]

I have two of the LM Plus and two of the 75 GXP. Quick access time goes to the LM Plus. Quiet operation and higher STR goes to the 75 GXP.

 

[thorin]

Last time I checked benchmarks etc on these drives the LM had better access time, and lower CPU utilization. I've also never had any problems RMA'ing equipment with Quantum, they normally agree to cross ship drives etc, to minimize downtime. (My friends and clients have had the same type of experiences from Quantum and we all use only Quantum drives).

Thorin

 

[340mopar]

I own both, performance nod to IBM, the IBM's are VERY quiet.
Quantum LM's have a (plastic cheap case like sound chatter), and I have been all Quantum for 3 years now. You won't know the GXP is there.
Geo.

 

[BowDown]

I only use IBM. I have only had 1 drive go bad on me and that one that I think got damaged during shipping. IBM took it back without a hitch and gave me a new one! Fast, quality and they're quiet to boot! Perfect drives.

 

[Pariah]

The return policy appears to be a recent change. Here's a link to one thread:

http://www.storagereview.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/004428.html

Before this, Quantum was shipping RMA drives straight from Asia. I guess they figured that wasn't economical anymore.

I own a Quantum KA and LM, and while they do make noise, they do not make a cheap sounding chatter. That's what the majority of SCSI drives produce, and I don't think anyone would term SCSI drives as cheap.

 

[DarkWarrior2]

I don't recommend Quantum drives. Yes, they have good performance, but only when they work.

I bought a quantum fireball+ka and it failed in 3 months. They sent me a replacement, and that one failed in 5 months. Tried to rma that one, they told me that they have no more fireball+ka drives, and offered me a check for about $80. I said that I'd rather wait until they have more, they said okay.

This was over 3 months ago. Called them yesterday, still no drives. And now they are offering $56.

Quantum sucks, I don't know what to do.

 

[Pete]

IBM. My Quantum Fireball LM Plus is fast, but too noisy. And the IBM isn't much more expensive.