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From: C506634@umcvmb.missouri.edu (Eric Edwards)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: 69cent disks WAS: Re: Professional Page 1.2 is out
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Date: 19 Jun 89 15:27:06 GMT
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In arcticle <6944@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> wolff@cs.purdue.edu says:
[Another poster mentions $0.69 diskettes from MEI and has no problems]

>Well, I ordered 100 of them and have had MANY problems with them. I may have
>gotten a bad batch, but I was backing up my hard drive and had about 30%
>FAILURE rate on them. I have even had a couple which have had track 0
>bad!
>
>I'm not pleased. I would MUCH rather pay the $1.25 for real SONY DS/DD disks
>which have NEVER gone bad on me. I've had at least one disk of every type
>I've tried go bad EXCEPT SONY DS/DD disks...

YIKES!  I just got a batch of 50 from MEI.  I thought they had cleaned up their
act.  About 3 years ago I had similar failure rates from a batch of 5 1/4's I
got from them.  I hope I'm luckier this time.  On a related subject I about
decided that some failure rate is inevitable.  I've bought diskettes from
Maxell, Bonus, Disk World, Direct Micro and MEI.  So far only Bonus and MEI hav
e perfect records.  That's rather distorted though since I only have 11 Bonus
disks and I've only had the MEIs for about a week.   Of the ones i have a lot
of Direct Micro is about the best.  1 Failure out of 100 disks.

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