[geeks] Cheap refurb SCSI drives?

[Michael Parson]

On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 01:58:46PM -0400, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> Wed, 18 Oct 2006 @ 12:02 -0400, Sandwich Maker said:
>
>> " From: John Francini <francini at mac.com>
>> " 
>> " As another poster wrote, no, the drives advertised are Atlas IVs, 
>> " which are Quantum designs derived directly from DEC designs.
>> " 
>> " They work. Well.
>>
>> this bears out my observation that if you want quality drives, look to
>> computer makers; as consumers of their own products they have much
>> higher awareness of quality than vendors with no use for them.
>>
>> hitachi makes computers, and bought ibm's disk line
>
> True, but Hitachi also made some of the worst drives the industry ever
> saw.
>
> There is a reason why the Hitachi Deskstar was nicknamed "Deathstar".

They had one model that was bad, the 75 gig one, IIRC, thought I don't
recall what the exact problem was, I never had that particular drive.
I'm a bit of a Seagate biggot, but they've put out some bad drives too.
I still buy them though, mostly for their 5 year warranty.

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Michael Parson
mparson at bl.org