On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 22:34, Cameron Nikitiuk wrote: > Hi All, > > DISCLAIMER: This post will be long-winded and full of information, thoughts, > ideas and plans. I apologize in advance for pi$$ing anyone off! :-) > > Well...I sold my Staples stocks and the cheque finally came in the other > day. One of the deals I made with Lisa about selling them, was that I get > an 80GB hard drive for my computer...and that is non-negotiable. Thank God > she agreed and said it was OK...WHEW!!! All you married guys out there can > probably sympathize with how I just dodged a bullet! ;-) > > Anyways...I have been looking around at the options and have narrowed t down > to three names. From what I see out there for industry and customer > approval, Maxtor has an excellent reputation and a good product. But...I > also here that Seagate and Western Digital and pretty much the same and > offer excellent products as well. I am preferable to an 80GB with ATA/133 > and an 8MB cache.
Well Maxtor had some problems with their 8MB cache drives and was late bringing them to the market. We have sold some of those lately but otherwise haven't sold much in the way of maxtors for the last year due to the 1 year warranty. Luckily. these new 8MB versions come with a 3 year warranty. I can't say enough about the 8MB cache Western Digitals. They are awesome drives and we have had very little problems with them over the past year, year and a half since they were introduced. Now WD had some bad years for a while but they have definitely fixed the problem. The nice thing about the 8MB cache Drives, was that they were pretty much the only offering with a 3 year warranty until recently. (IBM/HITACHI did have 3 year warranty drives but after the Hungary drive disaster, we like most people has stayed away from them.) Seagate drives are nice but they only come with a 1 year warranty so we tend to avoid them unless the costumer insists on them. regards, Mark Lane, CET mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hard Data Ltd. http://www.harddata.com T: 01-780-456-9771 F: 01-780-456-9772 11060 - 166 Avenue Edmonton, AB, Canada, T5X 1Y3 --> Ask me about our Excellent 1U Systems! <-- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
