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From: charlie@csnz.co.nz (Charles Lear)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Formatting 3.5" Diskette
Message-ID: <371@csnz.co.nz>
Date: 23 Jan 90 01:34:37 GMT
References: <7439@shlump.nac.dec.com>
Reply-To: charlie@csnz.co.nz (Charles Lear)
Organization: Computer Sciences of New Zealand Limited, Wellington, NZ
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In article <frobozz> Fred R. Goldstein writes:
>Any suggestions for whose DD disks really work HD?

Back in the dim, dark days when I first got a machine with 1.44M floppy
drives, I spent a fortune on buying name brand HD disks.  Then one day
I formatted a boxful of Memorex DD disks by mistake.  Hey, presto, ten
nicely formatted 1.44M disks!  I've repeated the same performance 
several times on other people's machines, and out of around 80 DD disks
formatted to 1.44M, only one has failed to format and only another two
have had a few bad sectors.

Since then, I have been able to buy Memorex disks at a good price, and 
use their HD disks for 1.44M.  A lot of my toing and froing involves 
copying files from one machine to another, and I have found that DD disks
formatted to 720k are the best "transfer medium", as just about anything
can read and write to them.

For backups (I'm too cheap to buy a tape drive) I use Memorex 5.25" 1.2M
disks exclusively.  I use around ten brands of disk on a regular basis
(now WHERE did that disk get to?  What brand was it?  I really *MUST* start
labelling my disks some day...) but all 220 of my backup disks are Memorex.
1.2M disks are the cheapest $ per meg storage I've found.  I see no sense
in paying NZD$130 (about USD$78) for a box of name brand HD 3.5's when I can 
get 6 boxes of Memorex HD 5.25's for the same dough...
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