Now hard drives too. Re: Modern floppy disk question...

[David H. Barr]

On 5/4/05, Joe R. <rigdonj at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
> At 08:31 AM 5/4/05 -0500, you wrote:
> >
> >
> >On Wed, 4 May 2005, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
> >> On Wed, 4 May 2005, Jules Richardson wrote:
> >> > Anyone know why modern floppy disks are such total junk? They seem to
> >> > often develop problems after only one or two writes - whereas back in
> >> > the day they were always pretty reliable.
> >>
> >I also apply this logic to why the latest 300GB Maxtor disk lasts six to
> >eight months before dying, as opposed to any number of <100MB disks that
> >cannot be killed. This, however, might be a false excuse - but I like to
> >use it anyway. (Of course, sometimes I prefer to just say Maxtor's suck
> >and dream of the day I can afford an all SCSI disk system)
> 
>   It's not just high density. The newest maxtors DO suck! So do the latest
> Seagates. For the ones of you that didn't know it, Glen Goodwin operates a
> computer repair shop and has had LOTS of experience with this. I talked to
> him about this and he recommended buying an IBM drive made by Fujitsu. I
> bought one and have had NO trouble with it (knock on wood!). All of the
> Seagates and Maxtors that I've tried in the last few years have failed
> within six months.

I thought Hitachi had all the IBM drive ops these days?

-dhbarr.