Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!pallas!kabra437
From: kabra437@pallas.athenanet.com (Ken Abrams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: MEI/Micro Center floppy disks
Keywords: disk
Message-ID: <435@pallas.athenanet.com>
Date: 28 Oct 90 17:07:10 GMT
References: <6834@hub.ucsb.edu>
Reply-To: kabra437@pallas.UUCP (Ken Abrams)
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In article <6834@hub.ucsb.edu> 6500boo@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (William Bushing) writes:
>Any comments on MEI/Micro? Do they deserve the flame... or
>worse?
>
One of the reasons that you can get "generic" disks so cheap is that
YOU are doing the testing and weeding out the bad ones.  MEI will replace
these but if there are only a few, it's not worth the postage.  I have been
using their disks for several years with no complaints.  I usually have
about a 3-5% initial failure rate and am happy with that.  I have never
had a disk that formats 100% the first time fail at a later date.
Just because some fail the initial format, it does not (necessarily)      
logically follow that the ones that DO pass are somehow less reliable.
Do they deserve the flame......probably not.
Should you use their disks.....probably not since it makes you uncomfortable.
Will I continue to use them......Absolutely.


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