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From: john@frog.UUCP (John Woods)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Cheap diskettes - a bargain?
Summary: From an article from Business Week on floppies
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Date: 29 Nov 88 02:11:00 GMT
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The October 31, 1988 Business Week had a short article on floppies
(page 152A). Recently, a disk-testing equipment manufacturer
(Memory Control Technology) tested 100 3.5" diskettes from 25
manufacturers.  Though all the diskette were labeled as meeting
"the government's most critical...standards", only four brands
actually met the standards in their test:  C.  Itoh, IBM, Sony, and TDK.
In better news, they also checked the wear life of the diskettes,
and found that only two brands showed significant wear after the
equivalent of 2 years of normal use (3 million revolutions) --
SKC and Wabash.  The cheapest diskettes they surveyed were JVC
at $1.37 per diskette, and the most expensive were IBM at $3.55 per
diskette.  Memory Control Technology rated C. Itoh, TDK, Memorex,
Kao, and IBM as best buys, and Xidex, Wabash, Dysan, and SKC as worst.  



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