Subj : Re: Grrrrr...
To   : ANGUS MCLEOD
From : Poindexter Fortran
Date : Thu Apr 14 2005 08:13 pm

-=> ROB MCCART wrote to ANGUS MCLEOD <=-

 AM>Jesus!  If the day has finally come that a Western Digital drive is used
  >as a standard of reliability, it's time I drank the hemlock!

I remember an old (old, old, OLD) article on the net talking about
Seagate ST-225 drives (20 mb MFM, 1/2 height 5.25", stepper motor...)
as being SO RELIABLE that you could easily reformat them RLL to get
another 10 megs out of them, because they were SO OVERDESIGNED.

By the time I'd read that, the -225 was a joke. I had to format mine
in the springtime and wintertime or lose sectors because of
temperature-related tolerance changes.

I ended up buying a bunch of KALOK drives that had way less moving
parts than the Seagates. Built like tanks, sounded like a garbage
disposal working on a spoon.


--pF

( 3o megs seemed so... big back then!)

 
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