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From: ericsc@microsoft.UUCP (Eric Schlegel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Trade in those dead Jasmines
Message-ID: <7075@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 25 Jul 89 15:37:19 GMT
References: <2774@mace.cc.purdue.edu>
Reply-To: ericsc@microsoft.UUCP (Eric Schlegel)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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In article <2774@mace.cc.purdue.edu> ajq@mace.cc.purdue.edu (John O'Malley) writes:
>Microtech International, makers of the Nova line of hard disk drives
>for the Mac, says that they'll give you up to $200 towards the purchase
>...of one of their products if you send in your old disk drive.
>
>So ... what's our consensus about Microtech products and service?  Good?
>Bad?  Fast?  Slow?  Quiet?  Anyone tried the trade-in?
>

I strongly recommend against Nova drives. Microtech has a contract with
Dartmouth College to supply Nova drives to the computing center there.
I've seen the drives of two of my friends die (one of those drives, after
being fixed and failing a second time, was eventually replaced) and the
repair shop at Dartmouth runs a full-time business fixing Novas.

Eric Schlegel
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These opinions are my own. Neither Microsoft, where I'm working, nor 
Dartmouth College, where I'm a student, is responsible for these opinions.