MiniScribe in general (was Re: Miniscribe versus Control Data...)

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From: Rob Demillo
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 1990 16:13

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In article <259AE863.26489@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca| rob@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Rob McDonald) writes:
|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.

I just heard on NPR the other night, that MiniScribe has
filed for bankruptcy under Chapter 11. 

I, um, would go with Seagate or Control Data....

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