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From: ltf@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Lance Franklin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: about Seagates...
Message-ID: <7066@killer.DALLAS.TX.US>
Date: 7 Feb 89 06:43:17 GMT
References: <92.23EB72B5@muadib.FIDONET.ORG> <6135@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <677@sactoh0.UUCP> <517@rpi.edu>
Reply-To: ltf@killer.Dallas.TX.US (Lance Franklin)
Organization: The Unix(R) Connection BBS, Dallas, Tx
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In article <517@rpi.edu> mcintyre@turing.cs.rpi.edu (David McIntyre) writes:
>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:
>>>    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.

>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.

Not to mention the ST251's that last about a year, then start refusing
to spin up...

My friend had 3 ST251's on his BBS...they were all about a year old, and 
they all started to have the same problem...on power up, they would refuse to
spin up, doing so only after he tapped them a few times, or gave the 
thing a little twist with his finger.  In my office, another ST251, about a
year old, has started failing in the same way.
 
So, what is the MTBF for an ST251, anyway?  :-)

Lance

 
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