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I was recently flipping through last month's MacUser and I noticed a mail order
company advertising (I forget who) something along the line of:
     "Our prices are Sooo low that CMS has requested that we do not print them,
      Call for pricing info."

Having recently bought a CMS MacStack 60 (through Hardware House) I was curious 
to see how much I might have saved had I waited another month.  800 numbers are
free, so I called.

The guy quoted the highest price I had ever heard of (So much for the low price
claim, it was at least $900) and then said that the MacStack 60 was 'Real Bad
News.'  He said that over 60% of them are returned for repair after 4 months.
Something about the power supply arcing and destroying the whole unit.

He then proceded (unsuccessfully) to try to sell me an Everex 40 Meg that
was "a steal at only $1300, I don't know why we're giving them away like this!"
(He must have been comparing it to the stuff on Apple's price list :-(

I'd like to know if anyone has heard of any problems with the CMS 60 Meg 
External drive.  I heard of a person who got shipped a bad one, but it was
replaced with a new one fairly quickly.

I'm convinced that this guy is a bozo, but sometimes a bozo gets lucky and
actually knows something.  My drive has run like a trooper so far...

Mail any CMS 60 Meg hardware problems to me and I'll post to the net.

Rob Verbrugghe
g-verbru@cs.wisc.edu
Disclaimer:  "I've got a spatula and I'm not afraid to use it!"
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