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From: yuan@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Yuan Chang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Sony 40MB HDs
Keywords: Sony, SC40
Message-ID: <11623@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu>
Date: 22 Feb 91 19:11:58 GMT
Organization: Univ. of Barbarians.  Honolulu, Hawaii
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Hi,

	Anybody have unusual problems with the Sony 40MB HDs that Apple
sells as the SC40?  So far, three of them have died (or became unusable)
within a month of each other.  Two of them from recurring stuck spindle (or
it could be "sticktion", but I have no way to tell for certain), and one
from an intermittent failure on the logic board.  That's 3 failures out of
17 of these (which are all about a year old), an unacceptably high failure
rate for me.  Does Sony have warrantee on these things for more than a year?
I think we'll replace our with the trusty Quantums...
-- 
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