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Article #6517Re: Are Seagate Hard Drives any Good ?
From: Mike Berger
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 16:35
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 16:35
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fevrier@sunburn.ec.usf.edu. (Ian Fevrier (EE)) writes: >Recently I had a local computer dealer try to convince me that Seagate >drives are not worth the metal they're built with. >To this date I would have sworn on a Seagate so I'd like to know if I >have just been lucky. >Have any of you lived through personal experiences that substantiates >this dealers claim ? *---- It seems to me that it's like saying that IBM makes nothing but junk based on the IBM 5100 computer. Seagate makes good disk drives, and they make cheap ones. They've had some production problems with various models, and great success with others. The ST-251 is not worth the metal it's built with, in my opinion. Conversely, the Wren IV, VI, and VII series drives (originally Imprimis/CDC) are very rugged, very fast, and reliable. I'd say your local computer dealer's opinion isn't worth the objectivity it's built with. -- Mike Berger Department of Statistics, University of Illinois AT&TNET 217-244-6067 Internet berger@atropa.stat.uiuc.edu
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Newsgroups: sci.electronics Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!news.cso.uiuc.edu!atropa!berger From: berger@atropa (Mike Berger) Subject: Re: Are Seagate Hard Drives any Good ? References: <1992Aug12.005008.24806@ariel.ec.usf.edu> Message-ID: <Bt4zFC.5B2@news.cso.uiuc.edu> Sender: usenet@news.cso.uiuc.edu (Net Noise owner) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Distribution: usa Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 16:35:34 GMT Lines: 25