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Article #904Re: List of recommended hardware components
From: Barnacle Wes
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 1995 04:14
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 1995 04:14
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David Charlap (david@visix.com) wrote: : Good riddance. Every single MiniScribe drive I ever used broke within : six months of installation. Usually something along the lines of the : spindle motor burning itself out. A completely inexcusable failure, : IMO. This thread is getting pretty silly, really. I've been all over the computer industry for the last 10 years - minis, workstations, PCs, no mainframes. I've seen Seagates that last 7 years without a hitch, and one that fried itself the first we plugged it in. (It may or may not have had some help from a copule of programmers armed with a screwdriver.) I have an acnient (ca. 1985) Sperry PC-IT 8Mhz 286 with a 43Mb Mini- scribe and MicroPort System V/AT (remember that?!?!?) that still runs. Yes, it was thoroughly wrung out - this machine used to be the Usent feed for Weber State University for 2 years. I also have an Everex Step 386/20 with an ST4096 that was still running Interactive System V/386 3.1 until I took it apart last March... Once worked with a bunch of SGI Iris 4D/70s, with Fujitsu and Maxtor SCSI drives that fought each other endlessly. My most recent previous emplyer now has a dozen or so ST11200N and ST31200Ns, no problems with any of them. Disk drives and manufacturers, like anything else, are all trying to build a good product at a profit. War stories are great, and maybe even useful, but specific exmaple of success are probably much *more* useful. Sorry to preachify, but I got my bottom rightfully chewed on via e-mail for being negative in here, so thought I'd help to clean up our mindspace a bit. Live long, prosper, and may the source be with you! ;^) Wes Peters
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