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From: lauac@mead.qal.berkeley.edu (Alexander Lau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Promotion on new hard drives
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Date: 29 Apr 89 02:35:37 GMT
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In article <1459@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu> lih@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu (Andrew Lih) writes:
>In article <23692@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> lauac@mead.qal.berkeley.edu (Alexander Lau) writes:
>>
>>>Preference Hard Disks-55% DISCOUNT!
>> 
>>DON'T GET THESE DRIVES!  I haven't had as much experience with
>>Preference as I have with Seagates and Quantums, but from what
>>I DO know:
>>- the formatting software is brain-dead.
>>- the drive cannot hook up to a LaserWriter IINTX.
>>- Crashes are EXTREMELY difficult to repair, mostly because the
>>formatting software is so brain-dead.
>
>What has formatting software got to do with crashes?  I have not found
>the Preference drives to be any worse than other brands. 

If the drive crashes and you want to reformat your drive, you have
to use their formatting software.  Which is brain-dead, and won't
recognize a crashed drive as being a Western Digital drive.  I admit,
perhaps I was a little heated about the formatting software, since I
had to deal with it fairly recently, but the facts still stand.

I know Western Digital is well-established in the MS-DOS world, but
they're not very established in the more demanding, more selective
Mac environment.  I still can't recommend them.

--- Alex
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