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From: n138ct@tamuts.tamu.edu (Brent Burton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Seagate Hard Disk
Summary: Seagate Drives = trouble
Keywords: Seagate, Hard Disks
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Date: 6 Jul 90 04:10:11 GMT
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I've owned a Seagate drive for about 19 months.  In December of 1988, I
bought a ST-277N drive.  I built a "homebrew" drive.  It workd fine
for about three weeks, then the drive would not start up when turned on.
I called HDI (I bought it from them) and they replaced the drive in like
a week or so.  This second drive lasted through January of this year. It
started doing the same things- no spin up, grinding noises .... I called
Seagate and told them (not in the nicest way I know) that for the price
I paid for one of their drives, I should be getting more than one year
out of them.  They fixed it -- I had to ship it to Florida via the 
expensive shippers, they fixed it in "28 days" (6 weeks) and I paid
$210.  One person told me it was $230 or so, but the other charged me
the $210 (better).
   Once I got the rebuilt drive, I reassembled it, and been _extremely_
careful with it.  I did not abuse the old mechanisms in _any_ way; they
just didn't last.  This rebuilt mechanism has a different bearing on it
than it used to.  I heard the grease in the drives' bearings may become
gummy, and if the drive is off for a while, the grease cools and sticks.
   I've had no problems with my rebuilt unit; I let run all the time.

   I do know I'll never buy another Seagate drive again.
Brent Burton
n138ct@tamuts.tamu.edu
BPB9204@TAMSTAR.BITNET