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From: tomp@pro-cco.UUCP (Tom Peng)
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Date: 13 Nov 90 06:07:00 GMT
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>I heard recently that there was a 83 Mb hard drive made by Seagate...
>So I looked it up in the Roger Coats product list and lo and behold there
>it was...at less than $500

>Has anyone had any experience with Seagate drives? Any good (reliability
>wise) ??? How easy are they to interface (i.e. are they SCSI or will you
>have to hunt for some obscure controller board) ???

Seagate 80Meg is part of my configuration of my GS. I used the drive for less
than a year, but returned to the mail order house in the States twice already.
First time, the drive failed to spin at constant acceleration, and the second
time, it wont read/write. In another words, I had alot of problems with it.
The cost for me to send it back twice and the time I had to go through with
the Canadian Customs is tremendous. In my opinion, I would rather get a more
reliable voice coil drive despite the higher cost.
 
Well, as far as I know, I am the only case, does anyone have the same
experiences? 
 
                                Tom
                                U. of T. Mechanical Engineering