Sam wrote,
> I had the worst experience ever with DaeYoung drives in 1993. I bought a
> system with a DaeYound hard drive in it and true to its name (and to
> re-use the obvious cliche) it died young. It was replaced with another
> DaeYoung drive which promptly bought the farm. They lasted less than a
> week a piece.
>
> I heard a rumor that DaeYoung drives were refurbished/repaired Conner hard
> drives. Is there any truth to this myth?
Oh no, that is not what DaeYoung does, DaeYoung is a company
producing pieces of dirt including $10 floppy drives and they did
make their own hds at one time. They're stepper type in 120mb range.
Remember when you get them, you had to rip off that yellow tape off
the stepper housing? Also, remember, Conner never ever made one
using stepper motors, all are voice coil of various types and they're
stictly Conner's and no else.
Oh, that is about right time-frame where I first saw these and
they're not never used and exhanged asap for 170MB ELS instead. (not
me.)
The usual failure mode was heads flinging off it's arms. I have
not vertified this yet. Bad news is, DeaYoung still around making
floppy drives through. (Yes, I have used them and seems not bad for
proper applications: very light use in non-cirvital cases.) Last
time I saw this brand name was couple of years or so back.
If one are riding hard on floppy drives, suggest Panasonics,
Toshiba or Citizen, no idea if they still make these quality drives.
If anyone have a Sony drives, it's big time soldering job fixing all
dry joints on those tiny-bitty SMD devices/chipsets. (Been there and
done couple and returned them to regular use as bench work. For
Toshibas types, I use them in my main pc and other one in portable.)
One guy did ride the Panasonic real hard mowing through 100's of
disks every weeks for a year before giving up due to wear on plastic
sled against single rail, even electronics kept working. That was in
old days few years ago!
Jason D.
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Jason D.
Received on Mon Dec 22 1997 - 16:28:44 GMT