Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!news.arc.nasa.gov!haven.umd.edu!udel!burdvax!dave From: dave@PRC.Unisys.COM (David Lee Matuszek) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware Subject: Re: Floppy Disks from MEI/Micro Center Message-ID: <18086@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM> Date: 24 Jun 91 16:10:29 GMT References: <1991Jun6.190601.616@vax.oxford.ac.uk> <1991Jun8.044915.19518@midway.uchicago.edu> <91164.091548JXY2@psuvm.psu.edu> <11061@pogo.WV.TEK.COM> Sender: news@PRC.Unisys.COM Organization: Unisys Corporation, Paoli Research Center; Paoli, PA Lines: 25 In article <11061@pogo.WV.TEK.COM> jonh@pogo.WV.TEK.COM (Jon Howell) writes: >I've been using MEI's disks for a number of years now. (Remember back when >we had 5.25" disks? Heh heh.. Boy, THOSE were the days... :^) The price >is right, but it's been my experience that a good number of the "certified >200% error free -- if you find an error, we'll buy you a Mac IIfx!" disks >do end up unformattable. I don't know how reliable the "good" (read: $5 >per disk :v) brands are, but I expect about one in ten or twenty of my MEI >bulk disks to fail formatting. That's OK with be, since the price is >right (even averaging out the junk ones), but you might want to keep this >in mind. > >This isn't a slam on MEI; I intend to order a batch of HDs from them >Real Soon Now. I just bought 50 high-density 3.5" diskettes from MEI ($0.59 apiece, I think they were, plus a significant shipping charge). I formatted them all this past Saturday. Every single one formatted perfectly. Just another data point. -- Dave Matuszek (dave@prc.unisys.com) I don't speak for my employer. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Freedom of speech: 1776-1991. R.I.P. | -------------------------------------------------------------------------