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From: mike@chimera.med.Virginia.EDU (Mike Chapman)
Subject: Re: List of recommended hardware components
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Date: Mon, 6 Feb 1995 17:11:04 GMT
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In article <D3HtB4.33G@bonkers.taronga.com>,
Peter da Silva <peter@bonkers.taronga.com> wrote:
>In article <3gs889$18@fido.asd.sgi.com>,
>Larry McVoy <lm@slovax.engr.sgi.com> wrote:
>>I can vouch for the Seagate Elite 1, Elite 2, and Barracudas (all used by
>>Sun and went through Suns qualification process). All of these were
>>big drives which goes along with the comments that others have made that
>>the seagate problems may be restricted to the smaller drives. Dont go
>>below a gig and you are fine, and at 50cents/megabyte, why would you?
>
>Given that the Seagates that caught on fire were at least 2G drives, I
>wouldn't jump to that conclusion...
>
>(not to mention the 1G drives I'm going through in our Sparcstations)
I've never seen a Seagate I liked or considered decent quality, except
maybe when the choice was pretty much Seagate or Miniscribe for your
PC.
The drives I've liked the best are HP - very high quality, very
sturdy, very fast.
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