toma@bit.UUCP (Tom Arneberg) (02/02/91)
SUMMARY: I passed on the Vista 60 drive (Seagate); I bought Fujitsu 90
A few weeks ago, I posted a question about the Vista drive from Relax
Technology. It is an external 60 Meg SCSI drive for an unbelievable
price of $299 brand new. Thanks to all who responded.
No one responding had any problems with Relax as a vendor. However, the
Seagate drive drew lots of complaints. One guy did say he's been using a
Seagate for five years with no problems, but many more said to steer
clear. I'm wary of blanket generalizations, but one guy who should know
gave the figure of 25% of Seagates going bad in the first year.
While debating this, another MacWeek advertiser, MacDirect, dropped
the price on their 90 Meg external Fujitsu drive to $469. The best
part is that this drive comes with a THREE YEAR guarantee!!
The combination of reasonable price and 3-year guarantee of the Fujitsu, and
alleged reliability problems with the Vista, prompted me to go for the Fuji.
MacDirect (800-621-8461) has only been doing mail order for six months,
but I'm pretty confident when using credit card, since I can always
refuse to pay the bill if I don't get good merchandise.
No need in this case, though...I received it yesterday and it's working great;
came preformatted and included disk partition software. There is a
push-button SCSI ID selector on the back, and it was surprisingly quiet
(at least compared to my DataFrame 20!). Total cost was $479 with shipping,
including the software and SCSI cable. Took about six days to arrive.
Hope this info helps those who are thinking of upgrading disk capacity.
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