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From: bparrish@hpccc.HP.COM (William Parrish)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Opinions on La Cie hard disks??
Message-ID: <11220001@hpccc.HP.COM>
Date: 28 Feb 90 20:56:46 GMT
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>    [stuff deleted]
>>	I have only one complaint: just after I bought my disk from
>>		them, they shifted to another brand of disk... and the
>>		warrentee went from 2 years to 5 years.
>
>Actually they didn't. It was originally the Quantum and afterwards it was the
>Quantum. Quantum always offered the 5 year warranty, Lacie just changed their
>policy (and agreement with Quantum I beleive) in order to pass on more of
>Quantum's warranty to their customers. Pretty nice. Except I have the same
>problem (two year warranty). Oh well if you wait for the "best" deal to come
>along, you never will own a mac :-).
>
>
>
>-- 
>Jeff Wiseman:	....uunet!tellab5!wiseman OR wiseman@TELLABS.COM
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Are you SURE they haven't swapped vendors?  My last copy of MACWORLD
has a LaCie add that is confusing to say the least...  (this is the March 
edition... a two page ad starting on p. 26.  The ad shows a yellow 
pad indicating that the primary drive is "Quantum"... but in the table way over to the left, it indicates that the 20,40,80,100,and 200 MB drives are
CONNOR (whatever that is?  anybody know about those mechanisms?  speed, etc.?)
and that the 50MB, 100,120,170,200 MB drives are Quantum mechanisms.  They 
list prices for the drives using CONNOR mechanisms, but for those using
Quantum mechanisms, they indicate "Call for new Quantum prices..." 
By the way, the 650 MB mechanism is listed as HP!  8-)  

Anybody know about Connor mechanisms or what's going on with LaCie?

Bill Parrish / HP Roseville CA  (bparrish@hprnd.hp.com)