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- From: keithh@bnr.ca (Keith Hanlan)
- Subject: Quantum versus Maxtor
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.205503.28839@bcars6a8.bnr.ca>
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- Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd., Ottawa
- References: <1992Nov9.201057.13440@sth.frontec.se>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 20:55:03 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov9.201057.13440@sth.frontec.se> bjst@sth.frontec.se (Bjorn Stenberg) writes:
- >Regarding hard drives, I (amused) found that GVP has changed hard drives on
- >their 2000/040 accelerator boards from Quantum to Maxtor.
- >
- >Kind'a confirms my feeling that my Maxtor was always a little zappier than
- >my Quantum. :-)
-
- Not in my, admittedly limited, experience!
- I added a Maxtor LXT-213 to my old Quantum P105S (the 5.25
- half-height older generation). In spite of specs that said the
- newer Maxtor should be faster, it is in fact noticably slower.
-
- Comments?
-