Re: Miniscribe versus Control Data...

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From: Rob McDonald
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 1989 04:30

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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.
>george

From both personal experience (taking care of ~150 PC's) and hearsay, 
the CDC WREN drives are very reliable.  All I can say about Miniscribe 
is that they are more reliable than Seagate, but that's not saying much.
.....rob

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From: rob@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Rob McDonald)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Miniscribe versus Control Data...
Summary: Go With CDC
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Date: 29 Dec 89 04:30:26 GMT
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