david@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (David Dantowitz) (02/07/90)
>Recommendations? Buy a used Apple 80 meg drive or a new one? > > >Would you buy an Apple 80 meg hard drive with 10 hours use and 1 year >shelf time or a new 80 meg (non-Apple). > From nrjwong@lion.waterloo.edu Wed Jan 31 11:07:19 1990 Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario Buy the non-Apple drive. Depending on the manufacturer or seller you can get up to a five year warranty on drives - much longer than Apple's, especially one that has already run out of its warranty. Price might still make you choose the Apple drive, but most 80MB drives are decently prcied that I'd go for the security over the price issue. Note. La Cie offers a 5-year warranty on most drives. Other manufacturers offer up to a two-year warranty. Johnny Lee jlee4@orchid.waterloo.edu [using nrjwong's account cause mine doesn't get these newsgroups.] ---------- From knapp@cs.utexas.edu Wed Jan 31 15:22:18 1990 Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas My advice: Don't buy an Apple drive. Period. Other drives are faster, less expensive, last longer and have a better warranty. For example, check out Ehman's drives. They come with a two year warranty, and the 80MB model (internal) costs just 559.- (with $20.- usenet discount). Edgar ---------- From meuchen@grad1.cis.upenn.edu Wed Jan 31 17:33:41 1990 Organization: University of Pennsylvania Considering the sticky lubricant problem Apple had, I might buy the used one before the new one even if they were the same price. Check what kind of mechanism the Apple is, and if it's a Quantum, check the serial number against the published list of bad drives. I'm not sure about the time frame of the bad ones, but I think one year old is old enough to come before the problem. BTW, I don't have the numbers but an Apple dealer should. Paul Eric Menchen meuchen@grad1.cis.upenn.edu ---------- From CHEE77@uhvax1.uh.edu Thu Feb 1 07:14:50 1990 Buy a new 105 meg for under $700 internal or under $800 external, from either APS or ClubMac. They both have adds in the back of mackWeek. They both use the quantum drive, which is fast and reliable. 2 year warranty. -Fred David Dantowitz david@cs.ucla.edu Singing Barbershop when I'm not computing...