usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU (06/28/91)
About 5 years ago, at least, the Berkely Users Group ran regular evaluations of floppies to see which brand was most reliable, and Sony was twice as reliable as the next most reliable brand. Does anyone have new statistics from any source, on both DDs and HDs? Thanks. From: rsb5c@watt.acc.Virginia.EDU (Richard S. Bondi) Path: watt.acc.Virginia.EDU!rsb5c
stanger@otago.ac.nz (Nigel Stanger) (07/01/91)
In article <1991Jun28.133305.754@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU writes: > About 5 years ago, at least, the Berkely Users Group ran regular > evaluations of floppies to see which brand was most reliable, and > Sony was twice as reliable as the next most reliable brand. Does > anyone have new statistics from any source, on both DDs and HDs? > Thanks. I don't know about statistics, but from personal experience I can say that they are the best I've ever seen. I have just formatted about 50 (HD) or so, and only one had any problems whatsoever (and System 7 fixed that anyway). It may be even better than that: as part of the same order, I also got 50 disks for friends, and they report no problems at all. I think a 1% "weakness" rate is pretty damn good! :-) BTW, our dept. bought a 1000 3M disks a whikle back. We've had something like a 5% problem rate (~half that outright failures) so far. -- See ya Nigel. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Nigel Stanger, Internet: stanger@otago.ac.nz c/o University of Otago, P.O. Box 56, Phone: +64 3 479-8179 Dunedin, NEW ZEALAND. Fax: +64 3 479-8311 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "If I had a quote, I'd be wearing it." -- Bob Dylan ----------------------------------------------------------------------
cjeff@silver.lcs.mit.edu (Carl J.M. Alexander) (07/01/91)
In article <1991Jun28.133305.754@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU writes: >About 5 years ago, at least, the Berkely Users Group ran regular >evaluations of floppies to see which brand was most reliable, and >Sony was twice as reliable as the next most reliable brand. Does >anyone have new statistics from any source, on both DDs and HDs? >Thanks. There's a thread on this in comp.sys.mac.apps (it began life as a thread on a topic appropriate to that area). It's most recent title is: "Diskette Quality (was: BASF disks are BARF)" The thread's just getting up to steam; so far praise for KAO, Sony, and Maxell. Personally, I'll say this: although well over half my disks are Sonys, over half the disks in my dead-disk pile are other brands. --Carl Alexander | BCS*Mac News Editor, The Active Window | The Boston Computer Society cjeff@silver.lcs.mit.edu | Macintosh Users Group