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From: mjl@ut-emx.UUCP (mjl)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Comotose Seagate follow-up & question
Keywords: Seagate, Hard Drives, Suck
Message-ID: <12584@ut-emx.UUCP>
Date: 1 May 89 07:41:49 GMT
References: <5586@cs.Buffalo.EDU>
Reply-To: mjl@emx.UUCP (Maurice LeBrun)
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Organization: UTexas Computation Center, Austin, Texas
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In article <5586@cs.Buffalo.EDU> jmpiazza@cs.Buffalo.EDU (Joseph M. Piazza) writes:
	[ more disturbing news about Seagate drives ]

As an owner of a ST-277N, I've been watching the discussion of  `the
great Seagate question' for a while now.  What I'd really like to know
is:

(1) is this thing purely a quality control problem?  as opposed to..

(2) are they all garbage?  (i.e. will they all fail from this problem
eventually?)

If (1), maybe I don't have to worry.
If (2), maybe I also don't have to worry if my duty-cycle is long
enough?  I mean, say I go 2-3 weeks between turning on/off my hard
disk, will this extend my MTBF by a factor of 10 as well?

Maurice LeBrun                |   "So then I says to Borg, `You know,
Institute for Fusion Studies  |  as long as we're under siege, one of us
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