Paul Rogers wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 RJT> I was wondering,  do any of you folks have any experience
 RJT> with either Hitachi or Samsung drives?  I see those two

 PR> Once had a Samsung 1.6GB drive.  It was a little noisier than
 PR> others but seemed to be solid.  I put it in a system I built for a
 PR> dear friend 10hrs away.

 RJT> names popping up more and more in my searches lately...

 PR> I think Samsung is one of only a few survivors in a Korean
 PR> shakeout. 

 RJT> Most all of what I have here is Seagate, WD, Maxtor,  and a
 RJT> few Quantum (those being older/smaller) drives.

 PR> Quantum only makes tape drives now.

I'm talking drives like the 80M that's running my firewall/router box,  a
number of 170M drives I have on hand that I've yet to use,  etc.  I think I
remember hearing as to how Quantum'd HD operation got bought out by Maxtor,
 but am not sure of that.  I can't keep track of this industry anyhow...

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