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From: lauac@mead.qal.berkeley.edu (Alexander Lau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: 40-ish MB HD recommendations??
Message-ID: <23429@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: 21 Apr 89 21:52:25 GMT
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In article <914@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> vakselro@jarthur.UUCP (Vadim Akselrod) writes:
|In article <23298@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> I write:
|>I haven't gotten around to writing my standard, anti-Ehman diatribe, so
|>I'll post this time:
|>
|>Ehman gives good prices.  You get what you pay for.  They use the
|>low-end Seagate stuff, that's unreliable and slow.  Ehman drives are
|>good for second base.  (Someone I know says they're good for doorstops,
|>but I'm more of a baseball fan than he.)  
|>
|>--- Alex
|I have experience with Ehman for a little over 6 months now, and I recommend
|the company's hard drives to anyone looking for one.  Four of the people I
|have made the recommendations to have purchased the drives, and all are
|satisfied!  
[stuff deleted -- "How to but an Ehman drive"]
|My advice: give it a try.  You have very little to lose.  If you don't like
|it, send it back in 30 days, no ?s asked.  And it does come with a 2-year
|warrantee, but I haven't had the drive long enough to see how it performs
|after the warrantee runs out.
|
|-Josh Akselrod

I had a feeling someone was going to do this.

Most people don't ever want to care about warranties or money-back
guarantees.  Most people just want to take their drive home and use it
for ever and ever.  I must say, I'm like that.  I don't want my money
back, I want my drive to work!

Seagate drives are known to have at least a 5-7% failure rate within
the first three months.  That's not including failure after warranty.
That's a HORRIBLE failure rate, and my experience with Seagate drives
leads me to NOT recommend them or any drive manufacturer that uses
Seagate mechanisms.  Companies like Control Data, Miniscribe, Maxtor
and Quantum all have failure rates a TENTH of that, and MUCh higher
MTBF (Mean Time Between Failure) ratings.

--- Alex
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