Path: utzoo!censor!geac!maccs!rob From: rob@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Rob McDonald) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Miniscribe versus Control Data... Summary: Go With CDC Message-ID: <259AE863.26489@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> Date: 29 Dec 89 04:30:26 GMT References: <1989Dec25.145513.3471@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> Reply-To: rob@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Rob McDonald) Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc Distribution: na Organization: McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario Lines: 17 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. >george From both personal experience (taking care of ~150 PC's) and hearsay, the CDC WREN drives are very reliable. All I can say about Miniscribe is that they are more reliable than Seagate, but that's not saying much. .....rob -- EMAIL: rob@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca <<< Standard Disclaimers Apply >>> ARCHAIC: Steltech, 1375 Kerns Rd., Burlington, Ontario, Canada, L7P 3H8.