KTK-VK@finou.oulu.fi (Vesa Komulainen) (10/15/90)
I am upgrading my Seagate 251-1 for a larger hard disk and have similarly priced offers for the Seagate 296N (SCSI) and a 80 MB Miniscribe (ATIDE). I would appreciate any comments about the reliability and quality of these two drives. I know they are not the quality of a Quantum or similar stuff but the price is an important factor for me. So far as I can see, the ST296N would be nice because it can coexist my 251-1 which the Miniscribe offering can hardly do, while on the other hand Minisribe is faster (seek time 19 ms).
larry@nstar.uucp (Larry Snyder) (10/15/90)
KTK-VK@finou.oulu.fi (Vesa Komulainen) writes: >I am upgrading my Seagate 251-1 for a larger hard disk and have similarly >priced offers for the Seagate 296N (SCSI) and a 80 MB Miniscribe (ATIDE). >I would appreciate any comments about the reliability and quality of these >two drives. I know they are not the quality of a Quantum or similar stuff >but the price is an important factor for me. I know nothing about IDE drives - but I do however have several friends running IDE drives under both DOS and Unix - and they work quite well. I would go with the Miniscribe and stay away from the Seagate if at all possible... -- Larry Snyder, Northern Star Communications, Notre Dame, IN USA {larry@nstar, uunet!sco!romed!nstar!larry, nstar!larry@ndmath.math.nd.edu} backbone usenet newsfeeds available Public Access Unix Site (219) 289-0282 (5 high speed lines)
keithe@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Keith Ericson) (10/24/90)
In article <1990Oct15.121233.7334@nstar.uucp> larry@nstar.uucp (Larry Snyder) writes: >KTK-VK@finou.oulu.fi (Vesa Komulainen) writes: > >I would go with the Miniscribe and stay away from the Seagate if at >all possible... > Unless Miniscribe has really cleaned up their act (and their upper-level management, from the news storier I read) I'd reommend... a) take Larry's advice and stay away from Seagate; b) take this advice and stay away from Miniscribe; leaving you approximately... c) Nowhere! Sorry 'bout that! kEITHe