First post, by 386SX
Hi,
lately I had problems with the Seagate 540MB hard disk I bought (not cheap) some time ago, basically finding damaged clusters not after the first format but after the installation of the o.s., apps, etc.. and after some daily scandisk tests. At the end I had to go back to the overlay driver solution and a later 1999 8GB disk.
Still I'd like to use some period correct disk, I don't like the idea of such modern disk with a overlay driver when everything is mostly period correct in the system.
So I was looking for another disk, a 540MB as the previous I have, different brand (Fujitsu for example) but beside how many test I can ask to the seller I don't know if I can expect long lifetime too of the disk.
Question: how many of these disks have you tried still mantaining most clusters in perfect conditions in config you use daily? The problem would not be the single cluster damaged but like the one I have, when seems to be spreading to the closer clusters and so on at any new test.
Can you trust your own early 90's hard disk drives?
Thanks