Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!lll-winken!iggy.GW.Vitalink.COM!widener!news.cs.indiana.edu!ariel.unm.edu!nmsu!opus!smargari From: smargari@nmsu.edu (Susan Margarit) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware Subject: Re: Floppy Disks from MEI/Micro Center Message-ID: Date: 25 Jun 91 04:56:54 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> <18086@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM> Sender: news@NMSU.Edu Organization: NMSU Computer Science Lines: 31 In-reply-to: dave@PRC.Unisys.COM's message of 24 Jun 91 16:10:29 GMT 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. Sorry about the lousy quoting.... I have purchased about 40 maxell and fuji HD diskettes while I have also purchased 25 of the el cheapos. Total body count is 15 dead premiums and 4 dead el cheapos. Infer what you will, but I just ordered another 25 el cheapos. Jim.