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From: stanger@otago.ac.nz (Nigel Stanger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Which Floppies are best?  Still Sony?
Message-ID: <1991Jul1.142729.662@otago.ac.nz>
Date: 1 Jul 91 01:27:29 GMT
References: <1991Jun28.133305.754@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
Organization: University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
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In article <1991Jun28.133305.754@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU writes:
> About 5 years ago, at least, the Berkely Users Group ran regular
> evaluations of floppies to see which brand was most reliable, and
> Sony was twice as reliable as the next most reliable brand.  Does
> anyone have new statistics from any source, on both DDs and HDs?
> Thanks.

I don't know about statistics, but from personal experience I can
say that they are the best I've ever seen. I have just formatted
about 50 (HD) or so, and only one had any problems whatsoever
(and System 7 fixed that anyway). It may be even better than
that: as part of the same order, I also got 50 disks for friends,
and they report no problems at all. I think a 1% "weakness" rate
is pretty damn good! :-)

BTW, our dept. bought a 1000 3M disks a whikle back. We've had
something like a 5% problem rate (~half that outright failures)
so far.

-- 
See ya
                                Nigel.
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