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To: Mark Adams who wrote (1884)	12/21/1997 6:00:00 PM
From: Box-By-The-Riviera™	Respond to of 9256

Thanks very much for your feedback mark..... greatly appreciated. Joel

To: Mark Adams who wrote (1884)	1/1/1998 5:04:00 PM
From: Bill Martin	Respond to of 9256

Re: Now, I've seen two Seagate drives (circa 1994, quality proabably has improved) which developed bearing noise 6 months into their lives. Won't buy a seagate drive, period. Interestingly enough, this is kind of a good news, bad news thing for Seagate. So far as I know, SEG is the only company so vertically integrated that they even make their own bearings -- which as you point out may have been a mistake (the bad news). The good news is that SEG is the first company I'm aware of that's moving to fluid bearings instead of ball bearings. This move is good if it works of course -- bad if it produces chemical lubricant contamination problems in the drives. Time will tell. Bill