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From: root@hnsurg3.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: disk drive life expectancies
Message-ID: <273@hnsurg3.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 1-Sep-87 16:46:27 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep  1 16:46:27 1987
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Reply-To: root@hnsurg3.UUCP (Don Lawrence)
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+---- mc68020@gilsys.UUCP (Thomas J Keller) writes in <1118@gilsys.UUCP> ----
| 
|    Take the Seagate ST-225 piece of trash, for example.  A very popular
|
|    (text deleted.....)
| 
|    I honestly cannot decide which makes more sense.  What makes *REAL* sense
| is to avoid consumer-grade disk drives like the plague, and stick to the
| commercial-grade, higher quality devices.  Sometimes immediate economics
| 
+--------------

The net can really USE an on-going REFERENCE section, perhaps in the
Archives, for such information as which HD's to avoid, etc.... especially as 
a source to which NEW net-users can be referred, AND for subjects prone to 
CYCLIC REPETITION of questions-answers as happens in a number of areas (PC 
*AND* big-box hard disks; Endian wars ; (m)alloc; What is a Byte; - save the 
comments by the experienced folks - and a number of other REPEAT subjects)...

Could save a lot of traffic when the same questions appear every 3-4 months...

Comments - Harris, Gwyn, Adams, Horton, Spencer, Spafford, et allei ?

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Don Lawrence	                 {decvax,cbatt,cbosgd}!hal!ncoast!hnsurg3!don
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Don Lawrence	                 {decvax,cbatt,cbosgd}!hal!ncoast!hnsurg3!don
(Generic disclaimer... )		             seismo!uunet!hnsurg3!don