World's Crappiest Drives (was Re: A&J Microdrive)

From: SUPRDAVE_at_aol.com <(SUPRDAVE_at_aol.com)>
Date: Wed Dec 6 12:14:51 2000

In a message dated 12/6/00 11:58:54 AM Central Standard Time, red_at_bears.org
writes:


> > Bulletproof drives:
> > Seagate St225,251, and 4096 interface version notwithstanding
>
>

bulletproof? hardly! those clunky drives seem to need a yearly LLF. I've had
some that reformatted ok, only to have them post bad within six months. Even
a functioning one in one of my IBM 5155s went bad although there were no
indications of problems.
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