[Gllug] Where to buy hard drives [Summary]

[Andy Farnsworth]

Out of curiosity, I monitored my Web Server log to see how many access 
this page would get.  It got three hits, however, what was interesting 
was the client reported on each one.... ok, on one specific one.  
Two-Thirds of the hits (ok, two of the hits) were via Firefox 1.5 and 
one of them was IE 6 which reported the engine as FunWebProducts-MyWay.  
For the one IE user on the list (you know who you are), if you don't 
know you have this installed and don't want it installed, a quick search 
of the web will tell you how to remove it or even to keep IE from 
reporting that you have it installed.

Andy

Andy Farnsworth wrote:

> Ok, I created a raw page with the information people replied with, you 
> can see it at http://flash.stonedoor.com/uk_vendors.html.
> For the archives, here is the text version.
>
> UK Computer Vendors
> ------------------------
> Vendor                         
> Site                                         Rating
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> Overclockers UK    http://www.overclockers.co.uk/    *****
> Komplett                 http://www.komplett.co.uk           ****
> CCL                       http://www.cclonline.com              ****
> NovaTech               http://www.novatech.co.uk           ****
> Dabs                       http://www.dabs.co.uk                 ***
> eBuyer                    http://www.ebuyer.com                ***
> Aria                        http://www.aria.co.uk                   **
> Scan                       http://www.scan.co.uk                  *
>
> Rating System Explained
> *****    Great Vendor, Good Website, Good Customer Service, and Good 
> Return Experiences
> ****    Good Vendor
> ***    "Not Bad" or "Neutral" Vendor, No Bad Experiences
> **    Bad Experiences, would only use this vendor again if they were 
> the only ones who had the item
> *    Terrible Experiences, "Not even if the last vendor on earth"
>
> Disclaimer: this rating system is based on word of mouth experiences 
> and may not reflect real life.
>
> Andy
>
> Andy Farnsworth wrote:
>
>> Hey everyone,
>>  I know this has been asked in many forms before, but I cannot seem 
>> to find a good answer.  I am looking for a place to buy a pair of 300 
>> GB SATA hard drives.  For my needs SATA 150 or 300 will work fine and 
>> NCQ support is not really needed.  From all the reviews it seems that 
>> no drive today really needs the SATA 300 bandwidth and NCQ is better 
>> for server loads with a fair amount of traffic but can actually lower 
>> performance on a normal desktop system.  I know about Dabs and eBuyer 
>> (and of course PCWorld) but what I am looking for is opinion on where 
>> to buy as well as other sources besides those three.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Andy
>

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