[Gllug] Where to buy hard drives

[Richard Jones]

On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 09:46:22AM +0000, Andy Farnsworth wrote:
>  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.

Got 3 SATA drives from scan.co.uk the other day without issues.
However I have had "issues" with them in the past, and their website
is blecherous - I think that's the technical term for a horribly
designed, unusuable piece of crap.

Rich.

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