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

[Billy Pettit]

Joe wrote:

>  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.
> 
>     Joe



The Pleasanton schoold distict bought a batch of systems with Fujitsu 
drives in them  They started failing in such large numbers that the 
district bought enough spares to replace every one.  Each school has 
somebody trained to do the swap.  Last time I talked to one of their 
techs, they had replaced more than half of them and still had several 
failures a week.

Failure was typically after several months of use.  Because of summer 
shut down, many failured right after the warrenty ran out (beginning of 
2nd year).  Fujitsu won't replace them.  The district now has standing 
orders to never buy another Fujitsu HD.

I've replaced a lot of drives around the house and in old Apple systems. 
  But I don't recall ever replacing anything less than 5 years old 
regardless of brand.  Maybe I'm just lucky, or live right.

Billy