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From: gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Gregory R Block)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Cheap Hard Drives?
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Date: 28 Feb 91 08:10:12 GMT
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From article <1113@ra.MsState.Edu>, by jra1@ra.MsState.Edu (Mephisto):
> Everyone seems to love Quantum drives so much.  
> What about Seagate?  I see that they are cheaper, 
> but what about reliability?
> 
> jeff
> Jra1@ra.msstate.edu
Now I'm not positive on this, but didn't some big BBS have ALL of its seagates
go bad because of smoking?  I'm referring to a couple of 300mb hard drives.  I
have heard from a LOT of people who have had similar probs...  Also, something
about r/w errors if turned on its side, or something....
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