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From: larry@nstar.uucp (Larry Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Whether to buy a Miniscribe or ST296N?
Message-ID: <1990Oct15.121233.7334@nstar.uucp>
Date: 15 Oct 90 12:12:33 GMT
References: <90288.075111KTK-VK@finou.oulu.fi>
Organization: Northern Star Communications, Limited
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KTK-VK@finou.oulu.fi (Vesa Komulainen) writes:

>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.

I know nothing about IDE drives - but I do however have several friends
running IDE drives under both DOS and Unix - and they work quite well.

I would go with the Miniscribe and stay away from the Seagate if at
all possible...

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