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From: jfh@killer.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.misc
Subject: Re: Disc reliability
Message-ID: <1450@killer.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 1-Sep-87 17:05:28 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep  1 17:05:28 1987
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Summary: Depends on the manufacturer

In article <2025@sigi.Colorado.EDU>, hartzell@boulder.Colorado.EDU (George Hartzell) writes:
> In article <15376@onfcanim.UUCP> dave@onfcanim.UUCP (Dave Martindale) writes:
> >Are all small hard disks unreliable compared with good large ones?
> 
> We have gone through several Vertexes (Vertexi?) on our Silicon Graphics
> 2400 within 2 years.  We switched to a 5.25 Hitachi (don't know the model)
> and have had no disk related problems (we now have a pair in the machine).

Needless to say, the summary line is selfevident.  Anyhow, I have seen
different manufacturers disk go anyplace from 6 months to 3 years.  (The
three year version wound up being sold for scrap because it wasn't PC
compatible)  All of these machines were subjected to the same treatment -
leave them on 24 hours a day.

The best luck I've had was with a Radio Shack.  That's the one that lasted
three years without a failure.  The one time it died was because of a failed
power supply in the drive.  The worst was I believe a 40 MB Rodime.  The
bushings on the ends of the spindle wore out which made the disk as noisy
as can be.

- John.
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