On Feb 12, 2009, at 4:23 PM, Adam Maas wrote:
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 3:54 PM, John Sessoms
<[email protected]> wrote:
From: Adam Maas
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Evan Hanson
<[email protected]> wrote:
I've got four computers here and the two bad CD's won't work on
any of
them.
What really gets me is that Apple knew that they had a batch of
seagate
drives prone to self destruction and didn't warn us. Evidently
the
arms
have a habit of smashing the heads into the platters destroying
the
data.
Arghhh.
Evan
There's no such thing as a bad batch of Seagate Drives. All of their
SATA and PATA drives have been unreliable ever since they shifted
production of non-SCSI drives to the old Connor factories after the
Connor buyout in the mid-90's. Every Seagate I've acquired since
then
has failed (I keep getting them in systems or external drives).
Just goes to show I can't do anything right. I've never had a
problem with
Seagate drives.
The sad part is that Seagate SCSI drives are among the most reliable
ever seen. I own a half-dozen pre-96 Seagate SCSI drives, the oldest
dating to 1987. All are completely functional (if very small). The
drives are in my small collection of old 68k Macs.
I have a pair of physically large Seagate SCSI drives stashed away
somewhere here. I think they're both 40 megs and are from my last 8068
Mac. I had a 10 meg drive on my last Apple // but gave it away some
time ago. That one was a real monster. All still worked last time I
tried them.
Paul
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