tmb@moscom.UUCP (Tom Bellucco) (02/10/90)
Help!! For the past couple years, I've been buying bulk 3.5" DSDD disks from
MEI/MicroCenter. I've bought THOUSANDS of disks from them, starting when they
were $1 per disk. Now they are $.45 per disk and they are shit. Out of each
200 I buy, at least 50-75 of them won't format DS. I figure they are just
using SS disks (because the SS disks are the same price). Back when the
disks were from $.70 - $1 each, they were great disks and it was a great deal.
Now it sucks having to return disks only to get more bad ones. Some of these
disks have "marks" (look like scratches) across the media that I just wonder
is doing to my drive.
I need to find a place that sells bulk DSDD disks, GOOD disks at a good price.
I buy, on the average, 100 a month.
And to think, Computer Shopper says MEI is the people's choice for best value.
HA! They haven't responded to my letters. When I call, they always ask what
kind of computer I have, then tell me to send them back to be cheerfully
replaced. I want them to be good the first time!
Anyone with recommendations, please mail me. Thanks.
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Tom Bellucco - moscom!tmb@cs.rochester.edu or {...}!rochester!moscom!tmb
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"Whatever I said, I didn't mean it...unless, of course, you liked it!"
#include <std.disclaimer> boyd@fsucs.cs.fsu.edu (Mickey Boyd) (02/10/90)
In article <2013@moscom.UUCP>, tmb@moscom.UUCP (Tom Bellucco) writes: >Help!! For the past couple years, I've been buying bulk 3.5" DSDD disks from >MEI/MicroCenter. I've bought THOUSANDS of disks from them, starting when they >were $1 per disk. Now they are $.45 per disk and they are shit. Out of each >200 I buy, at least 50-75 of them won't format DS. I figure they are just >using SS disks (because the SS disks are the same price). Back when the >disks were from $.70 - $1 each, they were great disks and it was a great deal. >Now it sucks having to return disks only to get more bad ones. Some of these >disks have "marks" (look like scratches) across the media that I just wonder >is doing to my drive. > >I need to find a place that sells bulk DSDD disks, GOOD disks at a good price. >I buy, on the average, 100 a month. > >......... >-- > Tom Bellucco - moscom!tmb@cs.rochester.edu or {...}!rochester!moscom!tmb > ------------------------------------- > "Whatever I said, I didn't mean it...unless, of course, you liked it!" > #include <std.disclaimer> I have recently seen an ad in the latest Damark catalog (have some real deals, and some real caca) for bulk Sony disks. Cost is $79 for 100 disks. I don't know if they are good or factory seconds or what, but the price seems good. They have a 1-800 number (they advertise in everything, they are the ones with the full page adds for discontinued lapstops and stuff) which I do not have handy, but I recommend finding it and requesting a catalog. They do have some neat stuff in there, weird things that the general populus did not catch on to, but are just the thing for us wire-heads. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------+------------------------------------- Mickey Boyd | "Nobody can be exactly like me. FSU Computer Science | Even I have trouble doing it." mail: boyd@fsucs.cs.fsu.edu | - Tallulah Bankhead ---------------------------------+------------------------------------- -----------------------------------------------------------------------
landry@enginr.dec.com (02/12/90)
In article <2013@moscom.UUCP>, tmb@moscom.UUCP (Tom Bellucco) writes...
"Help!! For the past couple years, I've been buying bulk 3.5" DSDD disks from
"MEI/MicroCenter. I've bought THOUSANDS of disks from them, starting when they
"were $1 per disk. Now they are $.45 per disk and they are shit. Out of each
"200 I buy, at least 50-75 of them won't format DS. I figure they are just
"using SS disks (because the SS disks are the same price). Back when the
"disks were from $.70 - $1 each, they were great disks and it was a great deal.
"Now it sucks having to return disks only to get more bad ones. Some of these
"disks have "marks" (look like scratches) across the media that I just wonder
"is doing to my drive.
"
Interesting - I just (well, a couple of months ago) bought 50
disks from MEI and they all formatted DS with no problems. A
whole lot of people recommended them so I assumed their quality
was generally good. Anybody elso having problems?
chrisfyl@ssc.UUCP (Phil Hughes) (02/14/90)
I also have been buying MEI disks for years. Some of the last batch I
gave the electric drill treatment to and formatted them HD. No problems.
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Phil Hughes, SSC, Inc. P.O. Box 55549, Seattle, WA 98155 (206)FOR-UNIX
uunet!pilchuck!ssc!fyl or attmail!ssc!fyl (206)527-3385