13,328 cylinders, 15 heads and 63 sectors.

Google's not hard, you know. These numbers fome out of Seagate's support site.

There were several models.

Quantum Fireball ST:
http://computermuseum.informatik.uni-stuttgar … h/4000/3546.htm

I can't find for EX and CX models, but they could use the same as ST.

Thanks man!

btw and just for the history, they didn't call those 6.4GB "fireball" without a reason 😁
I cannot confirm it of course but credible rumors state that this particular model was the gravestone for Quantum. From my part, what I do know as I was working for a computer store back then is that an extreme percentage of them were returned within guarantee limits. I mean almost all of them. The earlier 3.2GB etc models were fast and didn't share the same reliability, at least not to that extent.

Yeah I had a couple of these I pulled out of older computers in the early 2000s and all of them died shortly thereafter.

That and those Quantum Bigfoots. Both terrible drives I would never rely on.

I have ONE surviving Quantum Fireball 13GB still going...

leileilol wrote:

I have ONE surviving Quantum Fireball 13GB still going...

Well naturally there's always going to be freak exceptions to the rules 😉

Quantum Bigfoots... had one or two in our tech room we'd frequently use as door stops, hammers... and amazingly we could still read from them following use in that way (for shits and giggles). In their heyday, at least, they were built like tanks... 😁

I still got a working 15GB Fireball.
I pulled it out of a decommissioned office pc years ago and stuck the drive in a USB external caddy.
After a few years of that I built a win98 box and stuck the drive in there.
Still works today.

Maybe it was only specific models that were dodgy - like the IBM Deskstar 60GXP, was really the only model that had the click of death, but got the whole brand stuck with the 'DeathStar' name...

I personally used many Fireballs of all sizes for years without issues (except a 20GB one that dies on me just at the beginning of a backup session, taking out hours of holiday videos and a couple of thousand family photos with it).

To say the truth, Quantum brand and Fireball models were being considered as a reliable thing where I live and work. Actually, I still have several (some 20GB, 5GB and 3GB versions) in my older builds, working without a fuss.

I had a lct10 from 1999 that took until ~2010 to fail. It was a decent enough disk when it worked. My P3 800 has a Fireball in it, and it's *loud*. I need to replace it.

Stiletto wrote:

Quantum Bigfoots... had one or two in our tech room we'd frequently use as door stops, hammers... and amazingly we could still read from them following use in that way (for shits and giggles). In their heyday, at least, they were built like tanks... 😁

I have a 12gb Bigfoot that fails SMART. It was very fun installing Windows 8 to it 😀

My surviving Fireball is a TM 2.1GB. Zero bad sectors, currently holding Corel Linux 1.0.