[Gllug] Where to buy hard drives

[John Winters]

On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 09:46 +0000, 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.

I find Dabs and Novatech pretty reliable.  I've yet to discover a
supplier who I'd categorise as "good", but both of those fit as "not
bad".  The test comes when you have to do something other than place a
simple order - e.g. return something or get a problem fixed.  I was
using Aria until recently when my first query arose (I ran up against a
bug in their on-line ordering system) and their customer services
response can only be described as dismal.  Hence they got moved from the
"not bad" category into the "bad" one.

John

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