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From: ben@tasis.utas.oz (Ben Lian)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Supermac Dataframe XP60 hard drive
Message-ID: <642@tasis.utas.oz>
Date: 25 Jul 88 02:09:21 GMT
References: <638@tasis.utas.oz> <7572@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: ben@tasis.utas.oz.au (Ben Lian)
Organization: Information Science, Uni of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
Lines: 26

In article <7572@cup.portal.com> Mark_Peter_Cookson@cup.portal.com writes:
>I have not done a lot of research on drives that were less than 80 meg, but
>the Rodime drive has a MTBF of 20,000 hours while the SuperMac uses a drive
>that has a MTBF of 40,000.  That should say something...
>
>Mark Cookson

I am told that Rodime is the OEM for Supermac, i.e., they supply Supermac
with the raw drives.  It seems strange then that Rodime should use a less
reliable (whatever that means) mechanism.

There have been a rash of power supply failures in Dataframes recently.
Again I heard this on the grapevine.  True?  Even the local dealer has
gone cold on Dataframes because of alleged reliability problems.


Ben


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