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From: mcintyre@rpics (David McIntyre)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: about Seagates...
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Date: 7 Feb 89 00:46:16 GMT
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In article <677@sactoh0.UUCP> bkbarret@sactoh0.UUCP (Brent K. Barrett) writes:
>In article <6135@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>, jwbirdsa@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (James Webster Birdsall) writes:
>> In article <92.23EB72B5@muadib.FIDONET.ORG> Ed.Maurer@f7.n369.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Ed Maurer) writes:
>> >... I personally wouldnt 
>> >put them [Maxtors] in the same league with Core or Priam, but a step ahead of 
>> >the Seagate/Miniscribe crowd.
>> 
>>    Wait a minute! I thought Seagate drives were supposed to be some of
>> the best. Have I been misinformed?
>
> No, you haven't. In the PC world, Seagate is about as good as you
>get. Apparently Ed Maurer up there is the one who's been
>misinformed.
>-- 
> Brent Barrett ..pacbell!sactoh0!bkbarret GEMAIL: B.K.BARRETT

Brett must have missed the 100's of messages previously in this group
about failed, no-good, worthless 225's.  Seagate 225's are the only
hard drive that had a 40% DOA rate at the store I worked in, and many
of those that I told people to buy are now dead.

He must have also missed the comments in most of the latest Micro
Cornucopias, from various people telling stories of grief and lament,
based on Seagate's 225.

Many Seagate 225's have bad stepper motor controllers, which make it
difficult to read track 0 after a while.  This makes a disk sort
of hard to call reliable, huh??


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