Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!apctrc!zgel05
From: zgel05@apctrc.UUCP (George E. Lehmann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Seagate ST-225
Message-ID: <628@flyer.apctrc.UUCP>
Date: 15 Nov 88 14:33:00 GMT
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Reply-To: zgel05@flyer.UUCP (George E. Lehmann)
Organization: Amoco Production Co, Tulsa Research Center
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In article <764@auvax.UUCP> kevinc@auvax.UUCP (Kevin "auric" Crocker) writes:
>In article <616@ablnc.ATT.COM>, kep@ablnc.ATT.COM (Karl Parks) writes:
>> 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. 
>Well, I had a 225 put into an old Zenith 241 in July and was I ever
>against it.  
>   ... numerous ST-225 complaints ...

Just to put in my two cents (actually about $450) worth...

I purchased an ST-225 in December 86 (paying $450 then for the drive and a
controller card), plugged it in, loaded it up, and have been running like a
champ ever since.  (Knock on large piece of wood here.)  

It went into a 4.77Mhz clone machine, and has gone through at least a thousand
power cycles and thousands of hours of operation.  No strange noises, no
apparent problems whatever. 

I think the reason I've had such good luck is that I do frequent backups.
Murphy's Law 2.3.6.7, Corollary 6, Paragraph 3.a, Subsection 1: The probability
of failure of a given disk drive is proportional to the cube of the time since
the last backup was made.
-- 
George Lehmann,  ...!uunet!apctrc!zgel05
Amoco Production Co., PO BOX 3385, Tulsa, Ok  74102  ph:918-660-4066
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