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From: neese@cpe.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: HD Criteria
Message-ID: <12400019@cpe>
Date: 23 Nov 88 17:43:00 GMT
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Nf-From: cpe.UUCP!neese    Nov 23 11:43:00 1988


Boy, there has been a lot of noise about hard drive recently.  I would like
to ask a possibly silly question of the folks out in netland.  What criteria
do you use to buy a hard drive?

Just to get things rolling, here's mine in order of priority:

1) Compatibility
2) Reliability
3) Performance
4) Price

Just to put things in proper perspective.  I am an engineer and dearly
value the data I have on my hard drive.  It's something I don't want to
worry about.  A lot of net-people sound like they are loosing sleep
worrying about their hard drive (i.e. will it power-up tomorrow?, should
I have saved my data today?, what was that sound I heard?, why is it
screaming?, if I loose that data,.....)
I am very interested in buying criteria, please post or mail and I will
summarize.


					Roy Neese
					Tandy Computer Product Engineering
					UUCP @ {killer,merch,sys1}!cpe!neese