Reply 20 of 28, by xjas
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I had one of the infamous Quantum Bigfoots, I think I got the 2.5GB model; I distinctly remember liking it because it was an odd capacity for the time, because I've always been a hipster. Little did I know. It's one of the few drives I've had that actually failed in use and GOD was it slow & noisy.
A friend of mine bought a bunch of them (probably four) so he could stack them two-high per bay and make some kind of mutant file server thing with an ENORMOUS capacity for the time (ten or twelve WHOLE GIGS) in a compact AT minitower case on a teenager's budget. I wonder how long he ran that thing for.
I don't think they were particularly unreliable drives for their era, but they were built cheap & slow. I think I just had bad luck with mine.
On the other end of the scale, the dual 10k U160 Seagate Cheetahs in my Xeon build scream - in both senses of the word. 😜
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