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Article #40385Re: Miniscribe versus Control Data...
From: Russ Poffenberger
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 1989 22:11
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 1989 22:11
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In article <1989Dec25.145513.3471@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> george@ccvr1.ncsu.edu (George Browning) writes:
>Which hard drive would you recommend:
> 1) Control Data Wren Model 3 Full height drive 150Meg
> 2) Miniscribe 3180E Half height drive 150Meg
>
>I would choose the Miniscribe since it's smaller and seems to have
>the same specs (transfer rate, seek time), but I've been reading
>about a bunch of problems with other (smaller) Miniscribe drives.
>
>Thanks,
In my opinion, the CDC would be a far superior drive in terms of reliability.
We have used, and continue to use, CDC drives ranging from 90Mbyte SCSI to
1.2Gbyte SMD drives with no troubles.
Russ Poffenberger DOMAIN: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!uunet!sjsca4!molehill!poffen From: poffen@molehill (Russ Poffenberger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Miniscribe versus Control Data... Message-ID: <1989Dec27.221150.1197@sj.ate.slb.com> Date: 27 Dec 89 22:11:50 GMT References: <1989Dec25.145513.3471@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> Reply-To: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger) Organization: Schlumberger ATE, San Jose, CA Lines: 20