PATA hard disks, anyone?

[Richard Pope]

Bill,
     I have a 30 year old IBM SCSI drive that still works great. Yes, 
every company has had good drives and bad drives. I have had Quantum 
drives that have lasted for decades and I have had ones that died in a year.
:)
GOD Bless and Thanks,
rich!

On 3/28/2018 5:03 AM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote:
>
> On 03/28/2018 01:04 AM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
>> On 03/27/2018 08:27 PM, dwight wrote:
>>> I recall at one company we used Micropolous ( SP? ) drives. We had
>>> almost 100% failure in less than 6 months. It did our company a lot of
>>> damage.
>> A lot of outfits (e.g. Sun, HP) used Micropolis drives.  Generally, they
>> were good, but expensive.
>>
>> Maybe you're thinking of Miniscribe.
>>
>>
> I have ancient Micropolis and Miniscribe disks here that still
> work great.  Seems every company went thru at least one
> model that was trash.  The worst from my experience were
> IBM disks made in Thailand.
>
> bill
>
>