wolff@cs.purdue.EDU (Robert M. Wolff) (06/17/89)
From article <735@lakesys.UUCP>, by joe@lakesys.UUCP (Joe Pantuso): > [....] > By the way.... MEI Micro is selling disks for *69* cents each in lots of > 25, and they are GOOD disks, I have had fewer failures with their disks than > with Fuji or Sony's.... > > Joe Pantuso joe@lakesys.lakesys.com > Home(414)259-1897 Work(414)281-8700 Software ONE Well, I ordered 100 of them and have had MANY problems with them. I may have gotten a bad batch, but I was backing up my hard drive and had about 30% FAILURE rate on them. I have even had a couple which have had track 0 bad! I'm not pleased. I would MUCH rather pay the $1.25 for real SONY DS/DD disks which have NEVER gone bad on me. I've had at least one disk of every type I've tried go bad EXCEPT SONY DS/DD disks... bob -- -=-=-=- Insert Standard Disclaimer Here, Please... -=-=-=- /************* MS-Dos? Me? No, You must be mistaken! *************/
C506634@umcvmb.missouri.edu (Eric Edwards) (06/19/89)
In arcticle <6944@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> wolff@cs.purdue.edu says: [Another poster mentions $0.69 diskettes from MEI and has no problems] >Well, I ordered 100 of them and have had MANY problems with them. I may have >gotten a bad batch, but I was backing up my hard drive and had about 30% >FAILURE rate on them. I have even had a couple which have had track 0 >bad! > >I'm not pleased. I would MUCH rather pay the $1.25 for real SONY DS/DD disks >which have NEVER gone bad on me. I've had at least one disk of every type >I've tried go bad EXCEPT SONY DS/DD disks... YIKES! I just got a batch of 50 from MEI. I thought they had cleaned up their act. About 3 years ago I had similar failure rates from a batch of 5 1/4's I got from them. I hope I'm luckier this time. On a related subject I about decided that some failure rate is inevitable. I've bought diskettes from Maxell, Bonus, Disk World, Direct Micro and MEI. So far only Bonus and MEI hav e perfect records. That's rather distorted though since I only have 11 Bonus disks and I've only had the MEIs for about a week. Of the ones i have a lot of Direct Micro is about the best. 1 Failure out of 100 disks. Bitnet: C506634@umcvmb.bitnet __________________________ Internet: C506634@umcvmb.missouri.edu / \.--------. / \ "The Amiga just isn't reliable enough unless you | | Eric |---------+ | know a lot about the machine" -- Jerry Pournelle | `--------' ! | ================================================|| .--------. ! | "I did notice that at my party people stood in | | Edwards|_________+ | line to play with the Amiga"-- Jerry Pournelle | /`--------' | BYTE, October '88 \__________________________/