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From: cew@ELVIRA.ISI.EDU.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Bad Floppies
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Date: Fri, 8-May-87 20:50:31 EDT
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Posted: Fri May  8 20:50:31 1987
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I might as well put my two cents in for this.  The only floppy to fail
me was a Verbatim ValueLife DSDD.  This is their low end disk so I guess
I should have expected it.  Their top line disks (only SS) have performed
like champions.  Other lines I've used are Maxell, 3M, BASF and Dysan.

Summary:
Brand				SS	DS	In Use	Failed
-----				--	--	------  ------
Maxell				 X		   ~10
BASF				 X	 	   ~15
Verbatim ValueLife		 X		   ~20
Verbatim ValueLife		 	 X	   ~20       1
Verbatim* 			 X		   ~15 
3M					 X	   ~10
Dysan**				 	 X	     1

*I don't remember what they call their top line.
**Haven't really gotten to these yet, but ISI buys a lot of their 5.25
floppies for the IBM PCs.