dbercel@twg-ap.UUCP (Danielle S. Bercel) (10/22/88)
During the past month or two there has been a lot of posting about disk drives that have been problems, caused problems, etc. Would anyone care to post their *positive* experience(s) with disk drives for the PC. WHat good drives are out there in the 20MB, 30MB, 40MB size? Thanks, danielle -- Danielle Bercel - Senior Software Engineer - The Wollongong Group Email: dbercel@twg-ap.com or dbercel@twg.com US Mail: 1129 San Antonio Rd. * Palo Alto, CA. 94303 * (415)962-7160
jeff@questar.QUESTAR.MN.ORG (Jeff Holmes) (10/25/88)
In article <264@twg-ap.UUCP> dbercel@twg-ap.UUCP (Danielle S. Bercel) writes: > During the past month or two there has been a lot of posting about > disk drives that have been problems, caused problems, etc. Would > anyone care to post their *positive* experience(s) with disk drives for > the PC. WHat good drives are out there in the 20MB, 30MB, 40MB size? > > Thanks, danielle I would be interested in seeing this also. Thanks, Jeff -- Jeff Holmes DOMAIN: jeff@questar.mn.org Questar Data Systems UUCP: amdahl!bungia!questar!jeff
stevewa@upvax.UUCP (Steve Ward) (10/29/88)
I've had a Miniscribe 3650 in my AT-compatible since I bought it in January. I'm thouroughly satisfied with it. No mechanical failures (I have had one soft error show up) under moderate use (5-10 hours/day). It's kinda slow (68ms), noisy (like loud), but it's cheap, and I've never heard any horror stories about them (unlike some competitors whose names begin with s-e-a and end with a-t-e)...in fact, the media quality is regarded as good enough to use for RLL encoding (my next project) which will up the capacity to ~80MB and improve the data transfer rate too. | Steve Ward Jr. | | | University of Portland (Just a lowly student!) | stevewa@upvax.UUCP | | Portland, Oregon | !tektronix!upvax!stevewa |
rusty@cadnetix.COM (Rusty) (11/04/88)
In article <1664@questar.QUESTAR.MN.ORG> jeff@questar.QUESTAR.MN.ORG (Jeff Holmes) writes: >In article <264@twg-ap.UUCP> dbercel@twg-ap.UUCP (Danielle S. Bercel) writes: ... >> the PC. WHat good drives are out there in the 20MB, 30MB, 40MB size? >> > I would be interested in seeing this also. I have a 2-year old Seagate 4051 (full-height) drive in my AT clone. I don't use my computer very heavily (couple hours a week, probably). The disk has been no problem at all. ----- Rusty Carruth UUCP: {uunet,boulder}!cadnetix!rusty DOMAIN: rusty@cadnetix.com Cadnetix Corp. (303) 444-8075x296 \ 5775 Flatiron Pkwy. \ Boulder, Co 80301 Radio: N7IKQ 'home': P.O.B. 461 \ Lafayette, CO 80026
dsd@hpsad.HP.COM (Donald StDenis) (11/08/88)
>/ hpsad:comp.sys.ibm.pc / dbercel@twg-ap.UUCP (Danielle S. Bercel) / 11:11 am Oct 21, 1988 / >During the past month or two there has been a lot of posting about >disk drives that have been problems, caused problems, etc. Would >anyone care to post their *positive* experience(s) with disk drives for >the PC. WHat good drives are out there in the 20MB, 30MB, 40MB size? I've been using a 20M Seagate ST225 for ~2 years. No trouble. I use it about 4 - 10 hrs. per week in an XT clone. I got one for my brother's company last year, and he's had no trouble. He's got an AT clone, and uses it for CAD work on PC boards, ~20-30 hrs/week. -- Donald St. Denis R&D Department HP-UX Email address: dsd@hpsad Hewlett-Packard Signal Analysis Division Telephone: US (707) 794 4489 Rohnert Park, CA 94928