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To: Cogito who wrote (41233)	12/22/1997 11:22:00 AM
From: Kunal Taravade	of 58324

Allen, Re: Your report on Nomai vs Zip disks. I have had similar results in the tests I conducted on Nomai disks about 2 1/2 weeks ago, i.e. there were reallocated sectors. You are absolutely right that casual one time testing (write data/read it back) will NOT reveal these subtle differences. However, in prolonged dynamic testing to guage the MTBF (mean time between failures) or MTBE (mean time between errors) you will see significant differences between XHD and Zip. In fact, extrapolating from your results (as well as what I found earlier this month) I can safely conclude that using a Nomai XHD is very likely to invalidate your Zip drives' manufacturer's MTBF rating and also reduce usable lifetime. In my opinion this could be a result of poor media integrity and a lax manufacturing process that allows significant parameter variation in their products. Regards, Kunal

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