5 May
2005
5 May
'05
8:11 a.m.
Subject: Re: Now hard drives too. Re: Modern floppy disk question...
From: Cameron Kaiser <spectre at floodgap.com>
Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 07:34:33 -0700 (PDT)
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
Hard drives over the years (1981 to current) have all bee cause to
curse the makers. Depending on the year I've had seagate, WD,
Quantum, Maxtor, Fujitsu, Toshiba, and others on the do not touch
list. It varied with model and subtle tech variations. Currently
(since about the 9GB sizes came out) Maxtor is on the junk list.
Before that it was Seagate and Connor.
Ive found anything .0 is suspect and the latest and greatest HD
of the max size is susceptable.
Allison
5 May
5 May
3:38 p.m.
>>>> "Allison" == Allison
<ajp166 at bellatlantic.net> writes:
Allison> Ive found anything .0 is suspect and the latest and greatest
Allison> HD of the max size is susceptable.
We've found that this is not necessarily true.
Also, I don't think you can ever buy anything else. Drive generations
follow one another very quickly, and manufacturers only sell the
latest generation, whatever that is any particular quarter. A smaller
than max size drive is either the max size of the previous generation,
or simply a drive with fewer platters and heads than the max currently
available.
paul
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