Hello Rodney,
 In a message dated 24 Jan 97 you wrote to Shaun Gamble :

 RG> Well, I took your advice and bought a Quantum hard-drive. It's a
 RG> Fireball 1.7Gb.... yeah, I should have paid the extra $50.00 and
 RG> got a 2.5Gb. Still this one seems huge to me.

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 RG> The Quantum is very fast (to my knowledge) but is quite noisy.  I
 RG> don't know if this is normal.  I DID tighten all the screws.  I'm
 RG> told it is the eqivalent of a jet flying at the speed of sound six
 RG> feet off the ground ... the mind boggles, or should that be biggles.

I've got a Quantum Fireball, yes it is _very_ noisy, and sounds like a
turbine spinning down when you turn it off.

Nice drive, though, will recommend it to anyone (I've got the SCSI version)

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