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
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