Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!cornell!batcomputer!itsgw!imagine!turing.cs.rpi.edu!mcintyre From: mcintyre@turing.cs.rpi.edu (David McIntyre) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: ST225 outburst Message-ID: <1757@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU> Date: 16 Nov 88 07:42:27 GMT Sender: news@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU Reply-To: mcintyre@turing.cs.rpi.edu (David McIntyre) Organization: Rensselaer Instipoly Technitute Lines: 65 This is not going to be pretty. I have had extensive exposure to the ST225, including selling about 50 of them as a salesman for Computer Depot and owning two of them. In addition, I have bought ST225's for my dad, for my girlfriend, and have recommended them to many friends. To all of them I apologize deeply and sincerely. I honestly thought that I was setting them up with a nice hard disk. If I had any idea what a pile of feces the ST225 is I never would have sold/bought them. 1) Computer Depot had close to a 40% DOA rate on new ST225s. A few of these were the Western Digital controllers, but most were the ST225's. 2) My girlfriends has just died. She has had it about 1 1/2 years, but has used it less than 2 hours. Looks like the stepper motor controller is gone. 3) I lost a lot of sales due to returned hd's. 4) My drive, used extensively, but always parked, always backed up, and always treated carefully, is going bad. Some sectors no longer work. The stepper motor controller is probably going bad. 5) Micro Cornucopia magazine has had several articles mentioning how bad these suckers are. 6) I called Micro C's help line, and Larry told me that I can replace the stepper motor IC. I am going to try this, but as soon as I get some cash I am getting a Miniscribe. ---------------- ===> I MEAN THIS...DO NOT BUY A ST225. They are not worth their weight in dog doodoo. My dad's drive is the only one I have frequent contact with that is not at least noisy part of the time or partially flaky. ===> Buy a Miniscribe. Everybody seems to like them. ===> I, personally, will never buy or recommend another Seagate product. Any company that ships out stuff like this is not worth taking a risk on. Especially delicate hard disks with short warranties. ------------------ Ok, you can take your earplugs out, and take off the sunglasses. Just don't forget what I said. ------------------- PS. I have no connection with Seagate or any other hard disk manufacturer, except for being continuously burned by Seagate. What really bugs me is that I really was happy with Seagate for a while, and recommended them to everybody. I feel sorta used :-) Dave "mr question" McIntyre | "....say you're thinking about a plate home : 518-276-5842 | of shrimp.....and someone says to office : 518-276-8633 | you `plate,' or `shrimp'......" mcintyre@turing.cs.rpi.edu |