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From: awessels@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Wessels)
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Subject: Re: MEI / MicroCenter Diskettes (again)
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Date: 19 Nov 90 22:49:53 GMT
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In article <39963@ut-emx.uucp> readdm@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (David M. Read) writes:

>So the failure rate is either 9/50 or 2/50, depending on how you look
>at it.  Either way, the 79 cents/diskette price makes them much
>cheaper than they are bought retail!

Uh, can anyone out there shed some light on the issue of diskette failure
rate AFTER they have been formatted?  If that many disks fail formatting,
how many are likely to fail later, when you have data on them?  Especially
over time with changing diskette drive read heads?