Re: Are Seagate Hard Drives any Good ?

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From: FWR100
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 06:50

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In article <1992Aug12.005008.24806@ariel.ec.usf.edu>,
fevrier@sunburn.ec.usf.edu. (Ian Fevrier (EE)) says:
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>Recently I had a local computer dealer  try to convince me that Seagate
>drives are not worth the metal they're built with.
>Have any of you lived through personal experiences that substantiates
>this dealers claim ?

My experiences with two Seagate drives...

ST-238 - Ran about 5 years, started developing Data Errors, many bad sectors,
         etc.  I guess this is about what I'd expect from this generation drive

ST-277 - In 2 years has crashed a _minimum_ of 5 times, including once 2 weeks
         ago, and again this week.  Usually a hard sector error develops in the
         FAT, so it really fouls up everything.

I don't know if this performance is typical, but I'm not taking any more
chances with Seagate drives. I have a Maxtor drive on back-order, they're
supposedly very good - 150,000hr MTBF, and the folks at Hard Drives Internat'l
said they were a very reliable drive (also the least expensive)

-Frank

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