If you depend on a single person at Fry's, or any larger store having any idea what's going on, you definitely will be disappointed regularly. In other words, know what you want before you go in.
Rich
Lan Barnes wrote:
What great good fun!
I went to Fry's as suggested by Rich. As Fry's experiences fall out, this was in the third-circle-of-hell variety (I've had a couple of good ones in a row, so I was due). The guy had never heard of Rich's suggested special; he "searched" (if you can call it that) for an inexpensive HD ... but their inventory SW:
1. can't sort on price 2. can't screen out not-in-stock 3. can't screen by location (i.e. we had to wade through LA etc) 4. is subcategorized and must be searched separately within each category 5. is dog slow.
I finally thanked him and walked away. I don't think anyone had ever asked for an inexpensive drive before.
I went back to CCC and picked up a couple of cheap used 40 G'ers. I can't stop myself. I mentioned that the IBM drive had croaked and Ted said to being it back and they'd see what they could do.
They're good people.
On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 12:17:26PM -0800, Joshua Penix wrote:
series) drives. You may be SoL with the drive, but at least you can get some interesting reading out of the experience:
Year 2000 - An example of the glowing review that IBM's new drive was getting:
http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=1287&p=16
Mid 2001 - Hmm... is something funny going on? http://techreport.com/onearticle.x/2799
Late 2001 - The lawsuits begin! http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,67608,00.asp
2002 - 2004 - all hell breaks loose, IBMs name as a hard drive manufacturer is soiled and they sell out to Hitachi. Choice articles can be found on the class action lawyers' webpage:
http://www.sheller.com/SubPage.asp?SubPageID=88
2004 - Some internal IBM emails get publicized in a Maxiumum PC watchdog article, indicating that IBM was quite well aware of the problem:
http://techreport.com/onearticle.x/6292
Fun reading, though it may just piss you off. :)
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