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From: hartzell@boulder.Colorado.EDU (George Hartzell)
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Subject: Re: Disc reliability
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Date: Thu, 27-Aug-87 11:09:41 EDT
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In article <15376@onfcanim.UUCP> dave@onfcanim.UUCP (Dave Martindale) writes:
>Are all small hard disks unreliable compared with good large ones?
>
>On the other hand, we have a few workstations with Vertex 70 Mb hard
>disks (5 1/4 inch full height) that seems to have a MTBF of something
>under 1 year.  The major problem seems to be drive bearings that get
>too stiff for the motor to turn.


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).

g.
George Hartzell			                 (303) 492-4535
MCD Biology, University of Colorado-Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309
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