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From: richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Comotose Seagate follow-up & question
Keywords: Seagate, Hard Drives, Suck
Message-ID: <15369@gryphon.COM>
Date: 2 May 89 02:22:18 GMT
References: <5586@cs.Buffalo.EDU> <12584@ut-emx.UUCP>
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton)
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Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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In article <12584@ut-emx.UUCP> mjl@emx.UUCP (Maurice LeBrun) writes:

>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? 

Yes. Their clean rooms wern't, and the media they were using
was trash.

>as opposed to.. 

A desihn flaw ? No. Their drives, are one of the better designs around.

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

No. About 25 - 30% of them are.

>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?

If the drive is gonna fail, apparantly it's gonna fail in the
first few months.

(the sound of a collective sigh of relief dawns over comp.sys.amiga)


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