Quantum is also a big player in the LTO market. I think they and IBM might be the only two companies actually manufacturing drives, unless another one entered that market by now.
At nearly the same time they sold their HD business to Maxtor, they also bought up Adic, a tape library company with many government contracts. It's been those government contracts that have carried Quantum over the last 25 years, through failure after failure of trying to break into other markets.
So, Quantum's Xcellis and Lattus didn't gain much market share, so they think they'll buy others' products to do it. Yeah, well, that'll end up just like all the others in the last decade: forgotten and withering. Quantum's management doesn't know what they're doing. They're a bunch of accountants, not techies, so they don't know tech or what to do with it.
Back in the day, I loved the Quantum Bigfoot drives. The larger drives were a great way to get more storage, as long as you had a 5 1/4 inch drive bay available.
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Samus - Wednesday, February 5, 2020 - link
Wasn’t quantum bought by maxtor, who was then bought by seagate?sandtitz - Wednesday, February 5, 2020 - link
Same company. Quantum offloaded the HDD business to Maxtor.Many companies were using Quantums DLT tape drives back in in 90s/00s.
MenhirMike - Wednesday, February 5, 2020 - link
Quantum is also a big player in the LTO market. I think they and IBM might be the only two companies actually manufacturing drives, unless another one entered that market by now.dgingeri - Wednesday, February 5, 2020 - link
At nearly the same time they sold their HD business to Maxtor, they also bought up Adic, a tape library company with many government contracts. It's been those government contracts that have carried Quantum over the last 25 years, through failure after failure of trying to break into other markets.dgingeri - Wednesday, February 5, 2020 - link
So, Quantum's Xcellis and Lattus didn't gain much market share, so they think they'll buy others' products to do it. Yeah, well, that'll end up just like all the others in the last decade: forgotten and withering. Quantum's management doesn't know what they're doing. They're a bunch of accountants, not techies, so they don't know tech or what to do with it.LordConrad - Thursday, February 6, 2020 - link
Back in the day, I loved the Quantum Bigfoot drives. The larger drives were a great way to get more storage, as long as you had a 5 1/4 inch drive bay available.Slash3 - Thursday, February 6, 2020 - link
They were fairly quiet, too, as a consequence of the reduced rotation speed and timbre of the larger housing. Seek times were awful, though.mode_13h - Friday, February 7, 2020 - link
Holy Moley! I'd heard of Bigfoot drives, but I guess I never realized they were 5.25"!Scipio Africanus - Wednesday, February 12, 2020 - link
This article gave me a flashback. Gonna go spec out my new system now with a Quantum Fireball drive and Orchid video card.