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AVERAGE PERFORMANCE at a bargain price characterizes the Quantum Viking II. Its performance was almost identical to the Fujitsu MAB3091, placing it in the middle of the performance curves. It was the least expensive drive tested in this review, making it the second-best performance value.
The Viking II also was the best buy for storage capacity per dollar among the 9. Gbyte drives. It offers more than 10 Mbytes per dollar.
It is difficult to determine why the Viking II carries a suggested retail price that is $500 less than the Fujitsu MAB3091, which performed similarly, and $100 less than the Western Digital Enterprise 9100, which was slower. They all have the same capacity, 512-Kbyte cache and roughly the same number of platters. Quantum's reluctance to provide mean time between failure statistics in Viking's documentation-and even when asked-might be...