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From: rob@uokmax.UUCP (Robert K Shull)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Perfect Timing
Message-ID: <3276@uokmax.UUCP>
Date: 30 May 89 14:38:33 GMT
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Reply-To: rob@uokmax.UUCP (Robert K Shull)
Organization: University of Oklahoma, ECN
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In article <8400110@m.cs.uiuc.edu> gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>
>> Re:  Apple Hard Drive fails 1 day out of warranty.
>
>The Moral:  Don't buy Apple Hard Drives!  If you buy elsewhere, you'll
>get a 1,2, or 5-year warranty, not a skimpy 90-day warranty.
>Furthermore, you can get the same Quantum drives, or sometimes other
>drives with faster seek times and/or superior software support!

One thing to watch for: repair cost. I've heard people talking about
getting their Apple hard drives repaired for $200 or so (don't know if
this is the standard charge). Anyway, my CMS internal (Rodime mechanism)
failed the classic one day out of warranty (1 year). I paid a little over
$1000 for the drive. They wanted to charge me $800 plus labor for the
repair.
BTW, Rodime will apparently repair a drive that they manufactured, even
if it was sold by another company. Their charge: $219 (quite a profit
CMS must make on repairs!).
	Robert
Also, if anyone knows about a drive that has superior software support
(A/UX, real partitions, etc.) that still has a good price, let me know.
The CMS software stinks.
-- 
Robert K. Shull
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