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- From: cblaise@moose.uvm.edu.UUCP (Chris Blaise)
- Subject: Re: Are Seagate hard drives any good ?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug17.181702.4167@uvm.edu>
- Originator: cblaise@moose.uvm.edu
- Sender: news@uvm.edu
- Organization: University of Vermont -- Division of EMBA Computer Facility
- References: <1992Aug11.175340.23145@ariel.ec.usf.edu>
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 18:17:02 GMT
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- From article <1992Aug11.175340.23145@ariel.ec.usf.edu>, by fevrier@sunburn.ec.usf.edu. (Ian Fevrier (EE)):
- >
- >
- > Recently I had a local computer dealer try to convince me that Seagate
- > drives are not worth the metal they're built with.
- >
- > To this date I would have sworn on a Seagate so I'd like to know if I
- > have just been lucky.
- >
- > Have any of you lived through personal experiences that substantiates
- > this dealers claim ?
-
- Although I have heard this as well, my St 4096 (84 meg SCSI) has not
- even burped in the nearly 3 years that I've had it. Before that, we've run
- two 80 meg MFMs on a BBS for about 4 years with no problems whatsoever...
-
- Both of them also are/were cached with PCKwik...anyone know if
- caching is good or bad for a HD?
-
- TTYL
- Chris
-
-