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From: poffen@molehill (Russ Poffenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Miniscribe versus Control Data...
Message-ID: <1989Dec27.221150.1197@sj.ate.slb.com>
Date: 27 Dec 89 22:11:50 GMT
References: <1989Dec25.145513.3471@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>
Reply-To: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
Organization: Schlumberger ATE, San Jose, CA
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In article <1989Dec25.145513.3471@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> george@ccvr1.ncsu.edu (George Browning) writes:
>Which hard drive would you recommend:
>   1) Control Data Wren Model 3  Full height drive  150Meg
>   2) Miniscribe 3180E  Half height drive  150Meg
>
>I would choose the Miniscribe since it's smaller and seems to have
>the same specs (transfer rate, seek time), but I've been reading
>about a bunch of problems with other (smaller) Miniscribe drives.
>
>Thanks,

In my opinion, the CDC would be a far superior drive in terms of reliability.
We have used, and continue to use, CDC drives ranging from 90Mbyte SCSI to
1.2Gbyte SMD drives with no troubles.

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