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From: akm@cs.uoregon.edu (Anant Kartik Mithal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: MEI/Micro Center floppy disks
Summary: I recommend them
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Date: 29 Oct 90 04:38:41 GMT
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In article <90300.195308DSB100@psuvm.psu.edu> DSB100@psuvm.psu.edu (David Barr) writes:
>In article <6834@hub.ucsb.edu>, 6500boo@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (William Bushing) says:
>
>>My order of 5.25" HD, 3.5" DD and HD diskettes arrived yesterday
>>and I started formatting the 5.25" HD's. The VERY FIRST one was
>>a disaster, finally formatting with a number of bad sectors.
>>         My data is too valuable (tens of thousands of dollars
>>of consulting research effort on each diskette) to risk it even
>I'd agree.  I use namebrand floppies when it comes to my backups, or
>somtimes I use these with lots of error checking (I use Norton Backup
>and does tend to find errors when backing up on MEI disks)

I've run PC TOOLS backup program using 3.5" HD disks, and there were
no problems.

I'm not so sure that name brands make all that much of a difference.
I've had a lot of trouble with 3M 3.5" high density disks, and some of
the students in our department have had trouble with TDK 3.5" HD
disks. I should aslo point out that that problem was using a Mac
IIcx's super drive, which may or may not have any bearing on the
problem. I've never tried MEI's disks on those drives

>>Any comments on MEI/Micro? Do they deserve the flame... or
>>worse?
>I have a
>feeling this joint is an ~10 person business, running out of an
>abandoned building.

I know a lot of people who have bought stuff from them, and would
generally recommend their disks. I think that all told I've bought
about 400 disks of various kinds from them, and generally have had no
problems. As they do guarantee replacement, the deal is good if you
want a lot of disks. They advertise pretty widely, and seem to have a
lot of customers.
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Anant Kartik Mithal                                     akm@cs.uoregon.edu
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