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In article <1990May9.122652.4793@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> dailey@cpsin2.uucp (Chris Dailey) writes:
>Strange, we've purchased four Seagate drives here at work for our PC's
>and they've been EXTREMELY dependable.  A couple of them are ST251's and
>a couple more ST251-1's.

Well, the 251's have a bad reputation for refusing to spin up after a year or
so of operation.  This from several people on the net, industry trade rags,
and a buddy of mine who owns a computer store.

We used to have a ST251.  The first one failed after a couple months and was
replaced under warranty.  This is the only drive we have ever had a problem
with, yet we have run four Miniscribe 72 MB drives nonstop for three years,
plus a Maxtor 760 MB drive nonstop for several months.

I canned the ST251 a few months back, replacing it with a Quantum 105 MB SCSI
Prodrive, which has been trouble-free, 'though Quantum has had a few
batches of seriously defective drives themselves...
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