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From: KTK-VK@finou.oulu.fi (Vesa Komulainen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Whether to buy a Miniscribe or ST296N?
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Date: 15 Oct 90 07:51:11 GMT
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I am upgrading my Seagate 251-1 for a larger hard disk and have similarly
priced offers for the Seagate 296N (SCSI) and a 80 MB Miniscribe (ATIDE).
I would appreciate any comments about the reliability and quality of these
two drives. I know they are not the quality of a Quantum or similar stuff
but the price is an important factor for me.

So far as I can see, the ST296N would be nice because it can coexist my
251-1 which the Miniscribe offering can hardly do, while on the other hand
Minisribe is faster (seek time 19 ms).