I'm considering replacing the DEC 400M HD in my slab, and I have the following 1 to 2GB drives available to me.
Other than the general Seagate good, Quantum bad guideline for install in black hardware can anyone give me first hand experience pro/con on the following units?
HP C2490A-300
IBM DPES31080
Quantum Fireball ST2100S
Quantum Fireball TM1280S
I'm leaning to using the IBM because I have a couple available to try, and although the HP is larger it has to be the noisiest 3.5 I've ever worked with.
Thanks very much for any suggestions.
Quote from: "envirogeek"I'm leaning to using the IBM because I have a couple available to try, and although the HP is larger it has to be the noisiest 3.5 I've ever worked with.
I would concur with your preference. The experiences I had with consumer grade Quantum drives of that era were generally not good. On the other hand I pretty much never had any issues with Seagate and that is what I always leaned towards with SCSI. I do not have a lot of long term experience with IBM drives, but I landed a number of them a while ago and they all seemed to work very well despite their age.
Note that you might have to roll-up your sleeves and make a disktab entry for the drive, although if it is smaller than 2GB then you should be ok without.
Quote from: "t-rexky"Quote from: "envirogeek"I'm leaning to using the IBM because I have a couple available to try, and although the HP is larger it has to be the noisiest 3.5 I've ever worked with.
I would concur with your preference. The experiences I had with consumer grade Quantum drives of that era were generally not good. On the other hand I pretty much never had any issues with Seagate and that is what I always leaned towards with SCSI. I do not have a lot of long term experience with IBM drives, but I landed a number of them a while ago and they all seemed to work very well despite their age.
Note that you might have to roll-up your sleeves and make a disktab entry for the drive, although if it is smaller than 2GB then you should be ok without.
I got an IBM in my cube, and those are relly good, quiet and good performance