17 Aug
1998
17 Aug
'98
5:44 a.m.
Jason writes;
Ethan, this hd ST251-1 is equally bad and it uses
stepper not voice
coil. Can see the stepper itself. Also this hd have lot of
reliablity problems and very touchy especially handling, very
loud noisy.
I sit corrected. I had thought that the 28ms version used a voice coil
and the 40ms version used a stepper. That is not the case.
As for noise, yes. It's noisy by today's standards. All of the old
drives were touchy WRT handling. I didn't consider it more so than
any other 8 year old drive.
Compared to ST251 series, ST351A/X series is pretty
sturdy and very
low powered. But this ST351A/X is easiest to find than this
Miniscribe XT ide 8051A is voice coil and that is all I know that is
only one that does XT ide or AT.
I have never run across the ST351A/X series. I don't know how common they
were; I wasn't into PCs in 1989, just VAXen and Amigas. They do, however,
use steppers (28ms).
-ethan