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From: kep@ablnc.ATT.COM (Karl Parks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Seagate ST-225
Summary: have ST225's gotten better?
Message-ID: <616@ablnc.ATT.COM>
Date: 11 Nov 88 13:33:36 GMT
References: <1717@questar.QUESTAR.MN.ORG> <4617@bsu-cs.UUCP> <90@usl-pc.usl.edu>
Organization: AT&T IMS, Maitland, Fl.
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In article <90@usl-pc.usl.edu>, jpd@usl-pc.usl.edu (DugalJP) writes:
> In article <1717@questar.QUESTAR.MN.ORG>, jeff@questar.QUESTAR.MN.ORG (Jeff Holmes) writes:
> > 
> > 	Can any kind soul out there give me their thoughts on 
> > 	the 'Seagate ST-225 20mb (65 ms)' hard drive with, I think,
> > 	a WD controller?
> 
> We received ST225 drives in four Zenith 158's we ordered two years ago.
                                                           ^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^
It seems that ST225's had some serious porblems several years ago.  I
remember reading the net and got the impression that their failure rate was
rather high.  Lately it seems that there are annoying problems, but that they
are working for a longer period of time. 

Is this perception right?

Does anyone have info on the mean failure rates of the more popular hard drives?  
Karl Parks
att!ablnc!kep