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

From: Clint Wolff <vaxman_at_uswest.net>
Date: Wed Dec 6 15:56:06 2000

On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Don Maslin wrote:

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> On Tue, 5 Dec 2000 THETechnoid_at_home.com wrote:
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> > In <l03102801b653141dc9a0_at_[192.168.1.4]>, on 12/05/00
> > at 06:36 PM, Mike Ford <mikeford_at_socal.rr.com> said:
> >
> > >>In fact, these are absolutely the crappiest storage devices I have ever seen
> > >>used on any computer.
> > >>
> > >>Any challengers for worst storage device?
> >
> >
> > My experience with moving head and moving media technology has not been a
> > happy one.
> >
> > Disks are inherently unreliable due to thier moving media and moving
> > heads. Tape too. In many cases, tape heads and media also move.
>
> You are right, of course. You just cannot beat a chisel and a flat
> rock!
> - don
>

Sure you can.... With a hammer!

clint
Received on Wed Dec 06 2000 - 15:56:06 GMT