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From: mike@octel.UUCP (Michael D. Crawford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Ehman Drives
Message-ID: <19@octelc.octel.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jun 89 14:58:10 GMT
References: <43d3eb5a.a590@mag.engin.umich.edu>
Reply-To: mike@octelc.UUCP (Mike Crawford)
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Organization: Octel Communications Corporation
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In article <43d3eb5a.a590@mag.engin.umich.edu> jfm@ruddles.sprl.umich.edu.UUCP (John F. Mansfield) writes:
[...]
>ad from Ehman Engineering for their hard drives.  The prices seem very
>reasonable and they say they use Seagate units.  Has anyone had any
>experience with this company?  Principle issues being warranties,
>service and repair policies and turn round times.  The price on the 45
>meg removable is VERY low at $849.  This sounds almost too good to be
>true.
>
>Comments People Please?
>

I almost bought one of these, and did not, on the advice of a friend who
is a QA engineer for a synthesizer manufacturer.  He deals with defective
disk drives all the time.  His story alleges that though Seagate gained
a very good reputation for IBM PC disk drives, their agreement with IBM 
obligates them to sell their very best to IBM, and the seconds to everyone
else.  This synth manufacturer no longer uses Seagates.  He recommends Connor
Peripherals, I recommend Fujitsu, based on personal experience.

Watch misc.forsale and comp.sys.mac & mac.programmer for ads.  I just got
a 135 Meg, 25 msec Fuji M2246SA for $675, and bought a bitchin shoebox case 
and power supply for $99 at the Computer Surplus Store in Milpitas CA.

And I have discovered viruses.  Any recommendations for formatting software?  I will play with SF&I this evening.

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