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Article #148Re: FS: Western Digital 3.1 GB EIDE Hard Drive
From: David Gaudine
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 00:00
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 00:00
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In article <slrn5la1mg.357.thom@tigger.psyc.queensu.ca>, Thomas J. Wright <3tjw6@qlink.queensu.ca> wrote: > > Actually, I had a western digital fail completely (as in un >recoverable data and all) after only 8 months. The warranty covered >it--Thank god, although I lost a lot of unique stuff (as I couldn't afford >a backup system at the time.. bleh. > > But, in general hard drives don't fail very often at all, my >orignal drive is now 4 years old and still going strong. I have some 4 year old drives that are still going strong. I also had to send a 10 month old drive for repair yesterday. You never know. Still, I wouldn't pay more than 5 or 10% extra for a warranty; I think that at least 9 out of 10 would outlast a 1 year warranty. Plus a failed drive is a good excuse to get a newer model.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fd7c4,1ad0b448a59700a6 X-Google-Attributes: gidfd7c4,public X-Google-Thread: 10c8b8,1ad0b448a59700a6 X-Google-Attributes: gid10c8b8,public X-Google-Thread: 110b36,1ad0b448a59700a6 X-Google-Attributes: gid110b36,public X-Google-Thread: 104ddb,1ad0b448a59700a6 X-Google-Attributes: gid104ddb,public X-Google-Thread: fda75,1ad0b448a59700a6 X-Google-Attributes: gidfda75,public X-Google-Thread: 10bff7,1ad0b448a59700a6 X-Google-Attributes: gid10bff7,public X-Google-Thread: fa653,1ad0b448a59700a6 X-Google-Attributes: gidfa653,public X-Google-Thread: 10352d,1ad0b448a59700a6 X-Google-Attributes: gid10352d,public From: david@donald.concordia.ca (David Gaudine) Subject: Re: FS: Western Digital 3.1 GB EIDE Hard Drive Date: 1997/04/16 Message-ID: <5j366p$oqn$1@newsflash.concordia.ca> X-Deja-AN: 235253688 References: <335303DD.2AD3@netcom.ca> <3353BE81.A8C47631@sciex.com> <33546A96.72FF@torfree.net> <slrn5la1mg.357.thom@tigger.psyc.queensu.ca> Organization: ORGANIZATION? HERE?? You must be kidding!! Newsgroups: tor.forsale.computers,torfree.for-sale,brocku.forsale,concordia.forsale,uw.forsale,uwo.forsale,mcmaster.buysell,niagara.forsale,hamilton.buysell,kingston.forsale