Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/09/02

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Subject: [Leica] I'm back and resubscribed
From: feli at creocollective.com (Feli di Giorgio)
Date: Thu Sep 2 10:22:01 2004
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On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 05:25, Brian Reid wrote:

> During my time at Google, we bought and used hundreds of thousands of 
> disks.
> IBM were the least reliable. Seagate were the most reliable. Maxtor, 
> Western Digital,
>and Toshiba were all about the same. We didn't buy any Quantum. I don't 
>think that Quantum
>is still manufactured by Quantum; I think some other company bought the 
>brand name and 
>Quantum got out of the disk business.

Interesting how times change. IBM used to make really good drives, but
they were expensive.10 years ago Seagate was the king, then junk and now
they are up again. Quantum used to be good, but as you say, I'm not even
sure if they are really still around.

Thanks,

Feli



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