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From: js@dukee.egr.duke.edu (Jeffrey A. Shorey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: MEI/Micro Center floppy disks
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Date: 1 Nov 90 17:48:39 GMT
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From article <8416@darkstar.ucsc.edu>, by ted@helios.ucsc.edu (Ted Cantrall):
> I just got off the phone to MEI (800 number). I had purchased 50 5.25 HD
> disks and 15 of them (30%) were not good. 4 wouldn't even format at all;
> the rest had bad sectors. I just told them the problem and them said they
  My experience with MEI disks is to use a low level format program like
Norton Utilities WipeDisk on all disks first, then format them.  From around
200 floppies I had a bad disk rate (ie a disk with any bad sectors at all) of
around 5% or less.  They seem to have good longevity also, although I mainly
used them for hard disk backups and used my other disks for important things.

- Jeff Shorey