2 Jul
2007
2 Jul
'07
9:37 p.m.
From: Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com>
On Mon, 2 Jul 2007, Chuck Guzis wrote:
Hi
It's a shame their hard drives were not as good. I think they did
them selve in with a product that was really bad. When I was
working a HaL, we had almost a 100% failure rate in about 1-2
weeks of burnin. We cahnged brands ( I forget who ) and
had your typical 2 or 3 in a thousand rate.
Dwight
I saw the slam-bang behavior with the Micropolis
"squeeze to close"
type of drives--folks would just quickly flip the door open and let
it bang against the stop. Micropolis drives, fortunately, were built
like a brick outhouse and could take the abuse.
They're slow, with a helical lead screw, but the last working
5.25" drive in the world will probably be an early Micropolis.