[Gllug] Computer Shopping

[Peter Childs]

On Sunday 27 July 2003 18:41, Andy McGarty wrote:
> SNIP
>
> > PS If you are going to surgest SCSI your going to have to explain why
> > very carefully because 18Gb hard disks do not compare well to 80Gb ones
> > for IDE when SCSI cards are expensive too. If its needed I'm going to
> > need to say
>
> why
>
> > and currently I don't know at all!
>
> Three words...
>
> 5 years warranty
>
> I don't know of many ide drives that offer more than 12 months these days
> compared to three years a while ago, which must say something for how
> reliable they think their drive are?  I have 5 Maxtor drives recently and 3
> where DOA!  These have always been my preferred drive.

	I bet you can get a 5 year warranty at the right price! It will not cover you 
against data loss anyway! Its what on its thats important and buying a new 
harddrive is the least of anyones worries when you have just lost 18Gb of 
data.

>
> AND off topic, I noticed on a drive spec recently that it doesn't work
> above an altitude 3000 Metres.  Better think twice before lugging your
> server up a mountain!!
>
> Andy

Peter Childs

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