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In this review of Quantum Fireball, I am going to show you both the good and the bad. After all, what is a review without some honesty, right? First, I have to tell you upfront that Quantum Fireball is my favorite choice. Sure, there are other products in the same class, but frankly, none of them as good (in terms of quality). I do have to say this though. some other products may be better, but based on quality and price, Quantum Fireball is the clear winner.
Quantum uses the LGMR (Laser Guided Magnetic Recording) process in its reliable and dependable DLT tape format. DLT is an advanced backup storage media platform that supports its multiple versions. Four major innovative technologies are used in the Quantum SDLT (super DLT) backup tape format. These reliable technologies are POS (Pivoting Optical Servo), MRC (Magneto Resistive Cluster) head, PRML channel and AMP (Advanced Metal Powder) media. SDLT tape format is integration of innovative, powerful and reliable technologies that provide low cost and durable backup solutions.
Metal powder mechanism is used in the advanced metal powder media that is useful in very high data recording densities. In AMP media, there are optical-guidance targets that are on the media’s backside which are previously unused. AMP tape media also consists of optical-servo tracks. On the upper side of the SDLT tape is the optical guidance tracks while on the lower side of the data tape are the magnetic data tracks. MRC comprises of cost effective, densely packed small cluster of magneto resistive tape heads. Thin film processing mechanism is used in the MRC heads. Multiple heads increase Quantum Fireball the performance, output and transfer rate of Quantum Super DLT technology. Quantum SDLT tape technology is less susceptible to the environmental factors which as result increases the tape format’s track density and the ability to store more data. POS (Pivoting Optical Servo) is invented by Quantum and is utilized in the SDLT technology. POS allows high duty cycles. Data is magnetically recorded and hundred percent of the tape media’s front side is utilized.
Quantum SDLT is less sensitive to the outside influences therefore the track count is greater along with supreme performance. Quantum Super DLT uses the efficient PRML channel’s new advanced form that offers high efficiency (97 percent) code. Linear density of SDLT is increased by the PRML channel. Superior and exceptional transfer rate & recording capacity of SDLT enables it to manage huge volumes of data generated by the enterprise intelligence systems. The reason to adopt the fast speed SDLT backup storage technology is to match the explosion of information across the business landscape. More storage space and fast backup solution is the major requirement to handle the huge generated data volumes.
More tape area is required to enhance the recording ability and speed to transfer the data. Additional data tracks are needed to boost the recording densities. Per track recording density and more utilization of tape surface for recording of data are very essential. Quantum SDLT has all these latest technologies to provide high output. As described earlier that LGMR is the SDLT tape format’s base. This technology is combination of magnetic & optical technologies. The quantity of data tracks tape recording surface in SDLT tape media is increased due to the new technologies of LGMR. Requirement of preformatted data tape is eliminated in Quantum Super DLT because of the Pivoting Optical Servo. PRML channel & MRC (Magneto Resistive Cluster) heads deliver more capacity to save more data and high speed to ensure fast transferring of data. High density in SDLT tape technology is achieved by the advanced metal powder media. Quantum SDLT tape technology has buckling method of tape leader. That is why the duty cycle of Quantum SDLT is high in the automated working environments.
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What use can i have for an old hdd?
I recently took apart my ancient pc, both out of curiosity and (mostly) boredom.So now i have a whole bunch of electronic stuff that's mostly outdated and would fetch nothing more than a couple of bucks on ebay.I converted Quantum Fireball the cd rom into a standalone disc player. But then i found potential in the hdd.Is it possible to store music in the hdd and play it? Sort of like a rewritable cd with crazy storage power. Or store movies in it and connect it to my tv? Or make it into sort of like a ballistic missile launcher?Btw it's a quantum fireball lct15. Which has 15gb of memory. Means that it is more than useless for any other purpose.This whole thing is just me messing around with my old computer so anything goes.
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Quantum QMP40000AS-A 40GB IDE Hard Drive AS40A011-02-A US $38.99 End Date: Thursday Sep-09-2010 21:39:26 PDT |
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Quantum Fireball EX EX64A02G 6.4GB IDE Hard Drive US $48.99 End Date: Friday Sep-17-2010 13:11:31 PDT |
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IBM 06P5184 Quantum Fireball QMP30000AS-A 30 Gb DSZXX US $49.99 End Date: Saturday Sep-04-2010 19:47:57 PDT |
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Quantum Fireball TM 2.5 Gb Hard Drive TM25A012 Rev- 01 US $49.95 End Date: Monday Sep-13-2010 8:46:46 PDT |
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Quantum Fireball LCT QML10000LD-A 10.2GB IDE Hard Drive US $34.99 End Date: Tuesday Sep-14-2010 21:26:45 PDT |
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Quantum Fireball SE SE43A012 4.3GB IDE Hard Drive US $29.99 End Date: Wednesday Sep-15-2010 16:28:53 PDT |
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Quantum Fireball IDE Hard Drive ST32A012 02-C US $29.99 End Date: Wednesday Sep-15-2010 10:38:44 PDT |
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Quantum Fireball EL 5500665 5.1 GB IDE Hard Drive US $29.99 End Date: Sunday Sep-12-2010 20:24:33 PDT |
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Quantum Technology Fireball Lct20 QML40000LD-A (40 G... US $35.00 End Date: Tuesday Sep-07-2010 6:16:41 PDT |
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Quantum Fireball QMP30000AS-A 30Gb IDE AS30A014-02-B US $39.99 End Date: Monday Sep-06-2010 21:05:04 PDT |
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QUANTUM FIREBALL 2110S 2160 2.1GB SCSI 50 PIN TM21S3A1 US $99.95 End Date: Thursday Sep-09-2010 8:10:17 PDT |
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QUANTUM-QML10000LD-A 10.2GB 4500RPM Fireball 3.5" HD US $49.99 End Date: Friday Sep-17-2010 1:17:48 PDT |
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Quantum Fireball CR CR43A2F1 4.3GB IDE Hard Drive US $68.99 End Date: Friday Sep-17-2010 13:11:31 PDT |
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Hard Disk Drive Quantum Fireball TM TM32A012 Rev. 02-D US $186.99 End Date: Monday Sep-06-2010 14:37:52 PDT |
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40GB IDE QUANTUM 7200RPM ATA-100 AS40A101 QMP40000ASA Q US $25.23 End Date: Sunday Sep-12-2010 23:42:51 PDT |
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QUANTUM FIREFALL PLUS HardDrive 40GB QMP40000ASA-IDE-10 US $39.00 End Date: Thursday Sep-09-2010 10:17:36 PDT |
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IBM 06P5184 Quantum Fireball QMP30000AS-A 30 Gb DSZXX US $49.99 End Date: Saturday Sep-04-2010 19:47:57 PDT |
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Quantum Fireball TM 2.5 Gb Hard Drive TM25A012 Rev- 01 US $49.95 End Date: Monday Sep-13-2010 8:46:46 PDT |
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Quantum Fireball CX CX68A2F1 6.8GB IDE Hard Drive US $33.99 End Date: Friday Sep-17-2010 13:13:31 PDT |
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QUANTUM CR84A2F1 8.4 GB HDD BOARD FOR DATA RECOVERY US $24.95 End Date: Sunday Sep-12-2010 15:03:37 PDT |
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Quantum Fireball Plus Dell P/N 0030YM IDE HDD 10GB US $29.99 End Date: Thursday Sep-09-2010 14:50:05 PDT |
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Quantum Fireball D2678-63001 IDE Hard Drive 2.5GB US $29.99 End Date: Tuesday Sep-07-2010 16:36:41 PDT |
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Quantum Fireball EL51A011 5.1GB IDE Hard Drive US $29.99 End Date: Thursday Sep-09-2010 22:04:25 PDT |
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Hi OmiPerfectly normal. Don;t lose sleep over it,. Most of our computers do that and often due because of the extreme size of the new hard drives on the market today.If you go into the bios, you will see that it is recognized. It is just the display once you boot that displays none.
Run a spyware/adaware removal prog, and do a defrag, worked for me. Good luck.
Probably format the disk, yes. Have you tried allready?
If you only have one optical drive then why not put the second hard drive on your second IDE channel ( other plug separate cable) along with your optical drive. Make the new drive master there, then you can have both your hard drives as master and everyone is happy.don’t forget to set the optical drive to slave.
Hi SamLooks to me like your BIOS is still looking for the drive that you removed … if you go into the BIOS can you set the “Identify ide drives” (or something like that)… to Auto detect your hard-drive … if not … you may well have to set the Cylinder Head and Sectors manually … but I would think a 633mhz processor should be in a board that would auto detect …. the other thing is to make sure your new drive is set to Master and NOT to slave … if it came out of another machine as a spare drive it may well still be set as a SlaveGood LuckP.S. What happens if you hit to resume?
The simple answer: The drive is not compatible with the motherboard.Motherboard specs: http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/d915gev/sb/CS-012067.htm
Sounds to me like perhaps you could do with a software upgrade. They do have other versions of the EXVision ™ software. As to accessing the drive, yes the cooling helps, don’t know why but it does for as long as it is frozen. For starters NT4.0 does not use FAT, it only runs on NTFS so you need a system capable of reading this file allocation table format.If the expense is as you say 20-50K I would stop messing with reading this drive. Send it off to a data recovery service that might charge you about 800.00 to transfer all the data to another drive. If the drive does its final crash, you will loose indexing for the plattens and then nobody can get the data out since you can’t tell where it starts.I’ve had customers go this route and ended up saving their systems.Try these guys out, Seagate, who made the quantums at:https://services.seagate.com/online_request_form.aspx?GUID=BDE01110125041E98850E398934D0293
If the disk is not recognized by a computer, the only hope would be to send it off to a disk recovery service, such as Ontrack Data Recovery. They charge for their service.
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with two IDE ports on your motherboard you can drive upto four IDE Devices,,,,Each cable has master / slave….Dont worry which plug goes where….Set one device to master, one to slave…. Per cable…So two slaves/ Two masters….Also law was passed…. u have to refer to them as primary and secondary… the word slave is now illegal and offense due to the “slavery” in history.If it can not detect with this, Make sure in bios you dont have to scan drives b4 they are found
Sounds like a BIOS password got set. Is this a Desktop computer (as opposed to a laptop)? If so, unplug power from the computer, open up the case and remove the CMOS Battery. Let it sit for a bit (go have a coffee), come back, put the battery in, power on your computer again. Hopefully your BIOS password should be reset and you can carry on.
IF you are running Windows 98, you need to have the drivers for the hardware (the external drive CASE, not the Hard Disk). Go get drivers from their site.IF you are running Windows 2000, you MIGHT needs drivers. Again, check the web site for the people who made the CASE.IF you are running Windows XP, you should not need drivers.IF you are still having problems, right click My Computer, pick Properties, Hardware, Device Manager (for XP), and see if you see the drive/controller when it’s plugged in and turned on. If it shows up, you should be able to tell from the properties box if the drivers are loaded or not.If loaded, (Windows 2000/XP), right click My Computer, pick Manager, and pick Disk Manager. This is where you should be to create a volume and format the drive.
Open “my computer” on your desktop, right click anywhere in the window. Click on “View –> details” there should be a tab on top thats called total size. Thats the size of your HD.
Apparently you have an ancient computer and you have to enter the information manually in CMOS.It should be in the label on the drive,I used to know that stuff but that kind of hardware is beyond extinction I have deleted those information from my brain.There is nothing you can do with that drive so don’t waste your time.
Put your XP disk into the computer with the drive issues. Boot from the windows installation disk.select NEW INSTALL,READ THE SCREENDelete all PARTITIONSREFORMAT in NTFS.pull the plug from the wall when the FORMAT completes.
It’s probably dead.Hopefully, when you buy a replacement, you’ll think about ways to make backups of your data (even if it’s just burning a copy to a DVD/RW once a month or something).
First, make sure that the motherboard identifies the drive. Unplug ALL SATA and IDE devices from board. Set jumper on 20GB to single drive, connect it to the IDE Cable, connect power and connect IDE cable to primary IDE controller on board. If board does not detect drive the drive is probably dead. Yes, they can still spin and light up when they are dead.If your board detects it you are in business. Shutdown and connect your SATA drive and boot up. Windows should detect your 20GB as a new device and have you reboot. Then you should assign the 20GB a new drive letter in disk management so that it does not use one that you use for your temporarily disconnected drives.Then add your drives back one drive at a time, testing booting and access between each one. I recommend avoiding the cable select jumper setting. Make sure that CD/DVD burners are the master of their IDE bus. Always connect master or single drive to outermost IDE connector.I hope this helps.
you will be able to install windows XP.i would recommend installing the OS in your 40GB maxtor, to optimize the OS performance