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From: baumann@hope.UUCP (Michael Baumann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Seagate ST225 D.O.A.
Message-ID: <277@ucrmath.UUCP>
Date: 27 May 88 02:42:36 GMT
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In article <2845@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> amlovell@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Anthony M Lovell) writes:
>The 20 meg drive in our XT has breathed its last.  I understand it is
>the Volkswagen of the hard disk world.  Are these babies any good, or
>are they perennial troublemakers?

I have heard differing opinions about the reliablity of the 225. Personally
I wouldn't trust it as far as I could throw it. I had one that got EXTENSIVE
use (lots of large compiles and the like, heavy seeking!!) that failed 
drastically, no warning... It just stopped working, any attempt to access the
drive resulted in the access light coming on- and staying that way. This was
after only 13 months. I am not the only one in this area that has had this 
problem. I admit that I may have gotten one of the "bad" ones, but once bitten
twice shy. I now use a Fuji, quieter, faster, and smaller (3 1/2).


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