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From: stevewa@upvax.UUCP (Steve Ward)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Good Disk Drives
Summary: Miniscribe 3650 gets good marks
Message-ID: <466@upvax.UUCP>
Date: 29 Oct 88 01:19:32 GMT
References: <264@twg-ap.UUCP> <1664@questar.QUESTAR.MN.ORG>
Reply-To: stevewa@upvax.UUCP (Steve Ward)
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Organization: University of Portland, Portland, OR
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I've had a Miniscribe 3650 in my AT-compatible since I bought it in
January.  I'm thouroughly satisfied with it.  No mechanical failures
(I have had one soft error show up) under moderate use (5-10 hours/day).

It's kinda slow (68ms), noisy (like loud), but it's cheap, and I've never
heard any horror stories about them (unlike some competitors whose names
begin with s-e-a and end with a-t-e)...in fact, the media quality is regarded
as good enough to use for RLL encoding (my next project) which will up the
capacity to ~80MB and improve the data transfer rate too.


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