rlong@phonon.eng.ohio-state.edu (Prof. Ronald Long) (11/19/89)
Here is some info I have found about Quantum drives.
Quantum ProDrive 42, 84, AND 105 megabyte drives are
manufactured by Matsushita Kotobuki Electronic Industries,
"Quantum's Japanese manufacturing partner."
A comment on warranties. Beware that there may be differences.
The basic warranty is from the manufacturer (Quantum) but is
serviced by the dealer. ClubMac (mentioned below) is probably
just a dealer. The other two - LaCie and GCC Technologies - are
more like manufacturers and maybe will stand behind "their product."
I take this to mean that although they will try to collect from
the factory (Quantum) in the end they will have to cough up if
Quantum won't.
Three places to buy the 105 internal drive are listed below. All
include the drive, bracket, and cable.
1. Club Mac
Where: MacWeek ads
Contact: Mike Anderson at 714-768-1490.
Price: $709
Warranty: Two Years
Software: Unimac Storeware formatting ("a $29.95 value.")
\ \ \ Has anyone heard of this?
2. LaCie
Where: Ads in Mac User. review in MacWorld May 89.
Contact: 800-999-0143. They only sell direct.
Price: $999 (cash - more for charge)
Warranty: Five Year
Software: "Silverlining" - formatting
"Silverserver" - disk sharing
DS-Backup
3. GCC Technologies
Where: dealers or direct. slick catalog available.
Contact: 800-422-7777.
Price: $1149. (I found one dealer at $1034)
Warranty: Two Year
Software: SUM II, Ultraware
including DiskManager,
GCC Partitions and
QuickSpool.
Selectshare - pub. domain.
Misc: Their catalog says they do
a lot of testing of the drives
they receive.
4. Quantum manufacturers in
Milpitas CA 3.5 inch drives of
120, 168, and 210 MB. They refer
to these as Quantum's fifth
generation of 3.5 drives. I
assume that the smaller drives
are the fourth generation. But
although they have lots of
literature on these drives I am
not sure they are really
available at this time.
5. The Silverlining software is
available separately from La Cie
for $69.95.
Hope this helps those about to
make a decision. I am tempted to
go for the low price - but then
again!
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Ronald K. Long, Ph.D.
Ohio State Univ EE Dept., 2015 Neil Ave., Columbus, OH 43210
rlong@phonon.eng.ohio-state.edu