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From: jtn@potomac.ads.com (John T. Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Jasmine 100MB Hard Drives
Summary: jasmine drives
Message-ID: <7674@potomac.ads.com>
Date: 14 Mar 89 00:30:24 GMT
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> I purchased one in August. The first drive failed within a week - bad
> SCSI controller. The dealer swapped it for a new drive, which has been
> perfect. All in all, I'm a happy camper.


I purchased 7 last year and abou 4 of the 7 failed within a few
months.  Jasmine repaired them as necessary.

I'm quite sure there's something wrong with Jasmine drives since they
have recently replaced the guts of their drives with Rodime parts as
opposed to the CDC (?) parts they used to use.  Talking with other
companies I find that they have had amazingly similar experiences ...
i.e several of their Jasmine drives have all failed within weeks of
purchase.

Consider also that a former employee of Jasmine is sueing Jasmine for
marketing products that are sold as very reliable but which Jasmine
knows are inherently unreliable.  There are other rumors of an
upcoming scandal.

Jasmine drives are inexpensive, but I don't think they are the most
reliable drives on the market just from the experiences we've had.

Can anyone recommend better disk drives for not much more $$$$ / megabyte?