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- From: gsteckel@vergil.East.Sun.COM (Geoff Steckel - Sun BOS Hardware CONTRACTOR)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.periphs
- Subject: Re: Are Seagate drives any good ?
- Date: 18 Aug 1992 17:59:30 GMT
- Organization: Omnivore Technology, Newton, Mass. (617)332-9252
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- There are 2 different families of Seagate drives: the `Imprimis'
- family bought from CDC a few years back, and the homegrown Seagates.
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- The Imprimis line is much higher quality than the old Seagates.
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- The old line (ST4096, for instance) had high incidence of stiction
- (heads stuck to disk), extreme temperature sensitivity, and required
- care about mounting position and vibration. This was really bad news
- in a line marketed to cheap PC customers.
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- The new line has had a few klunkers which required extra cooling
- (766N) but otherwise worked well. In the limited sample I've checked
- (a few hundred) the Imprimis line is very reliable IF YOU KEEP THEM
- COOL. The smaller (3 1/2") drives are less power hungry.
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- geoff steckel (gwes@trilobyte.com, gwes@wjh12.harvard.EDU)
- Disclaimer: I am not affiliated with Sun Microsystems, despite the From: line.
- This posting is entirely the author's responsibility.
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