PATA hard disks, anyone?

[David Brownlee]

On Wed, Mar 28, 2018, 06:04 Chuck Guzis via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
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.
>

Micropolis quality dropped way down towards the end - at Dreamworks we used
to refer to it as  "Micropolis - for all your data loss needs"