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- Subject: Re: Are Seagate drives any good ?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.201925.20430@awdprime.austin.ibm.com>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 20:19:25 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug12.134817.27714@ariel.ec.usf.edu>
- fevrier@sunburn.ec.usf.edu. (Ian Fevrier (EE)) writes:
- >
- >
- >Recently I had a local computer dealer try to convince me that Seagate
- >drives are not worth the metal they're built with.
- >
- >Have any of you lived through personal experiences that substantiates
- >this dealers claim ?
- >
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- I bought a 85 MB Seagate 296N (or 1096N, I can't remember) SCSI drive
- about a year and a half ago. After about 3 months, I began getting
- errors and drive failures. (I could boot up on a floppy and access
- the hard disk for a few minutes, then reboot and start over.)
- I promptly removed any data that I could and exchanged it with the
- dealer for an identical drive.
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- This drive is still going great and I have had no additional problems.
-
- Eric Deal
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- P.S. My next drive will probably be a Maxtor...
-