rjd@cs.brown.edu (Rob Demillo) (01/05/90)
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.... - Rob DeMillo | Internet: rjd@brown.cs.edu Brown University | BITnet: DEMILLO%BRNPSG.SPAN@STAR.STANFORD.EDU Planetary Science Group | Reality: 401-273-0804 (home) "I say you *are* the Messiah, Lord! And I ought to know, I've followed a few!"