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From: richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Comotose Seagate follow-up & question
Summary: Wouldnt take a seagate if you paid me.
Keywords: Seagate, Hard Drives, Suck
Message-ID: <15311@gryphon.COM>
Date: 30 Apr 89 08:04:14 GMT
References: <5586@cs.Buffalo.EDU>
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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In article <5586@cs.Buffalo.EDU> jmpiazza@cs.Buffalo.EDU (Joseph M. Piazza) writes:
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>[From: thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan)
>[Experience NOW suggests that only the ST-4096 is a good drive from Seagate due

Well..... as I said earlier there was an article in PC week about
Seagate's current problem with with quality control.

To briefly re-iterate, the worst off drives were the 3" drives. Oh
joy. 

Next worst off, specifically mentioned were the ST-4096. Distributors
mentioned up to 24% failure rates.

I have a 30 meg seagate at home. It's ok so far, but I'm nervous.

I buy a fair number of disk drives at work; I've seen wierdnesses
with seagate drives - I wont buy them anymore. Fujitsu makes a nice
little 3" 40 M drive that gets 62 M with RLL. Miniscribe makes
a nice 71 M full height 5" drive. Recommended.

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One of the wierdnesses I've seen with the seagates is when they
turned on end (ie a tower PC case instead of a desktop unit)
unless they are reformatted IN THAT POSITION, they get a not
insignificant number of disk errors. Anybody else
seen this ?

(this is with half height 5" 20M drives)

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