19 Apr
2005
19 Apr
'05
10:29 a.m.
Rumor has it that Eric Smith may have mentioned these words:
Saying damn near _anything_ from Memorex is crap is a statement of fact.
Their 5.25" floppies sucked. Their 3.5" floppies sucked. Their cassette
tapes sucked. Their mainframe 9-track tape drives sucked. Their CD-R[w]
media sucked. Their CD-R[w] drives sucked. Needless to say, I've not tried
any of their DVD branded media... ;-)
These are all media and/or devices that I have personally worked with over
the last 20 years; I have yet to see *anything* from that company that I'd
even let my dog urinate on, let alone trust for data storage.
Billy wrote:
5. Saying a
certain brand is crap, and another outstanding may be only
a personal bias.
No. Saying that media from CMC Magnetics is crap is a statement of fact,
backed up by much evidence collected over a period of years. CMC Magnetics
discs purchased last month were not any better than those purchased
three years ago. Also, the fact that TDK has at times in the past
shipped CMC Magnetics
media under the TDK brand does tell me something very important about
the TDK brand. Even though TDK might not be shipping CMC Magnetics
media today, there's no way in hell I'll ever buy writable optical media
from TDK again. Not because it's crap today; since I haven't tried it
recently I don't know. But instead, because it is proof positive that
TDK does not perform adequate qualification of their suppliers. Thus
there is no way to buy TDK optical media and have any reasonable
expectation that it is not crap.
Bingo!
Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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