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Article #34885Re: Cheap diskettes - a bargain?
From: John Woods
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 1988 02:11
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 1988 02:11
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The October 31, 1988 Business Week had a short article on floppies (page 152A). Recently, a disk-testing equipment manufacturer (Memory Control Technology) tested 100 3.5" diskettes from 25 manufacturers. Though all the diskette were labeled as meeting "the government's most critical...standards", only four brands actually met the standards in their test: C. Itoh, IBM, Sony, and TDK. In better news, they also checked the wear life of the diskettes, and found that only two brands showed significant wear after the equivalent of 2 years of normal use (3 million revolutions) -- SKC and Wabash. The cheapest diskettes they surveyed were JVC at $1.37 per diskette, and the most expensive were IBM at $3.55 per diskette. Memory Control Technology rated C. Itoh, TDK, Memorex, Kao, and IBM as best buys, and Xidex, Wabash, Dysan, and SKC as worst. -- John Woods, Charles River Data Systems, Framingham MA, (617) 626-1101 ...!decvax!frog!john, john@frog.UUCP, ...!mit-eddie!jfw, jfw@eddie.mit.edu Science does not remove the TERROR of the Gods!
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!bu-cs!mirror!frog!john From: john@frog.UUCP (John Woods) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Cheap diskettes - a bargain? Summary: From an article from Business Week on floppies Message-ID: <1288@X.UUCP> Date: 29 Nov 88 02:11:00 GMT References: <32406@bbn.COM> <46700087@uxf.cso.uiuc.edu> Organization: Servants of the Great White Frog Lines: 21