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- From: berger@atropa (Mike Berger)
- Subject: Re: Are Seagate Hard Drives any Good ?
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- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 16:35:34 GMT
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- 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.
-
- >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 ?
- *----
- It seems to me that it's like saying that IBM makes nothing but junk
- based on the IBM 5100 computer. Seagate makes good disk drives, and
- they make cheap ones. They've had some production problems with
- various models, and great success with others. The ST-251 is not
- worth the metal it's built with, in my opinion. Conversely, the
- Wren IV, VI, and VII series drives (originally Imprimis/CDC) are
- very rugged, very fast, and reliable.
-
- I'd say your local computer dealer's opinion isn't worth the
- objectivity it's built with.
- --
- Mike Berger
- Department of Statistics, University of Illinois
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