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From: lance@virgin.UUCP (Lance Fraser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Seagate drives
Message-ID: <2261@virgin.UUCP>
Date: 22 Nov 88 13:25:41 GMT
Reply-To: lance@virgin.UUCP (Lance Fraser)
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Organization: Virgin Software, Ltd., Nashua, NH.
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     I have installed approx.  500 disk drives at customer locations
in the past five years.  If I have a choice and price is not a concern
then I use Priam hard drives- I think they are the best and I have never
had a failure.  If price is a concern (and it usually is) then I use the
Seagate family.  I've used about 400 Seagate drives and about half of these
have been ST225's. Of the >200 I have bought only 2 have failed. One was
in warranty and Seagate replaced it without any questions. The other
wasn't in warranty, we just bought another one. My point is that
the failure rate is very low and so is the price. Use the drive's as
much as possible, if they fail buy another one, I don't see what
the problem is. The drive cost <250 brand new, if it only runs
for a year then you have gotten your money out of it.


	---lance