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Article #5784Re^2: Is an Apple Hard Disk better than any of the others ???
From: Alex Pournelle
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 1989 04:40
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 1989 04:40
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truesdel@ics.uci.edu (Scott Truesdell) writes: >There is a high likelyhood that the 3rd party drive you may purchase >is manufactured by the same company that the Apple brand drive is; >Quantum. >Buy a Quantum from Apple, you get a 90 day warranty. >Buy a Quantum from anybody else, you get a 2 year warranty. >This is, unless you are getting a GOOD educationaly discount from >Apple. Beg to differ. CMS drives are usually Seagates; Micro-Nets are usually CDCs (the larger ones). Some CMSes, many lesser-known companies have MiniScribe or Micropolis mechanisms. The higher-performance mechanisms (high-performance=US-made, in SCSI drives) are more money, but well worth it. Few companies use the Quantums. Micro-Net drives are my favorite, by far. They have the best tech. support and tech. people. And the CDC mechanisms don't break. Alex
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