Quantum GoVault GoVault drive

Advantages: Fast, great spec, low price
Disadvantages: Not shipped with instructions

...The Quantum Fireball Plus LM - what a bargain hard drive! At a price of £104 I got one with the following spec: 15 Gigabytes, UDMA66 support, access time 8.5 milliseconds, 7200 rpm, 2 megabyte cache. It is also very quiet when being used. Try and find another drive quite like this for the price. If you have never installed a hard drive before, however, this one comes with no instructions, but you can find plenty of help on the web. Buy it from www.dabs.com – oh and delivery is free too. I’m thrilled with mine!... Read review

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Advantages: Capacity, Reliability, Low Price
Disadvantages: Speed

...Well, there is not much to talk about for this drive - I've been using it for about 6 months to its full extent ( writing - erasing large amounts of data, and working 14 hours / day on average )... I have nothing to complain about, but for it's speed. compared to other drives it lacks a bit on the speed part, but it's realiability is something that should not be, in any way, overlooked. I personally have used Quantum drives from the 850Mb model up to the 10.2Gb model, without leaving out any betweener, and have yet no bad sector in any of my hard drives... As for the price, it is usually lower than the other drives, but it largely depends on the store you choose to buy from... I would reccomend this product for businesses that do not largelly depend on speed, but it is sure to fulfill even harder tasks without a problem.... Read review

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Advantages: Fast, reliable, Good Price
Disadvantages: No SCSI cable included, Not Great instructions

...I bought this for our office server which before-hand was running a DDS5 tape drive. I have to say the DDS5 backup system we had was excellent and never caused me any problems. We got to a point where we needed two tapes to do a backup, and considering we keep backups for up to a month, thats a hell of a lot more tapes we would have to buy. After a lot of research and learning about DLT and SDLT, we discovered the V160. DLT allows backups to 40GB (80GB Compressed) and SDLT is alot more (i forget the figures). DLT would not have been enough and SDLT is a hell of a lot more expensive. Quantums V160 is right in the middle of the two and each tape can store up to 160GB data if compressed. We managed to get the drive for around £700 and then bought a number of tapes. It was delivered direct from Quantum within a week. The one problem I... Read review

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