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From: thad@public.BTR.COM (Thaddeus P. Floryan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Cheap Hard Drives?
Message-ID: <1951@public.BTR.COM>
Date: 28 Feb 91 11:16:30 GMT
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In article <1113@ra.MsState.Edu> jra1@ra.MsState.Edu (Mephisto) writes:
>Everyone seems to love Quantum drives so much.  
>What about Seagate?  I see that they are cheaper, 
>but what about reliability?

You get what you pay for to a certain extent, but you DID use the correct word
in reference to Seagate: "cheap."

Contrast that word to "inexpensive".

Seagate horror stories abound in all the newsgroups, user groups, trade
journals, etc. out of all proportion to their (large) market share.

I've had 11 (eleven) Seagate drives (ST251, ST157, etc.) and they have all
failed with stiction (static friction).  My email file of Seagate failures
from around the world now exceeds 3MB (4 Amiga floppies).

Hard drive repair companies who come to our user groups unanimously berate
Seagate, and show (via photomicrographs) the "white worms" and other ailments
characteristic of Seagate drives more than any other manufacturers' drives.

Suggest you follow comp.sys.amiga.hardware and various comp.sys.* groups for
a few weeks and see how many problems surface with Seagate.

Thad Floryan [ thad@btr.com (OR) {decwrl, mips, fernwood}!btr!thad ]