That's all I need to know. No Maxtors for me. I was over at CompUSA today looking at a Maxtor 160 GB Firewire drive for $400. The store has a 14 day return/exchange policy, or you can give them an extra $30 and extend that return period to two years, but if Maxtor is that kind of a company, I think I'll stick to IBM drives. I've already got a couple of them and they've always been rock-solid reliable (knocking on wood).
Tom At 12:32 AM -0600 07/29/2002, Philip Stortz wrote: >it was a new drive, it was specifically listed by model number on >maxtor's web page as being covered by their "no quibble" warranty, it >took several months, emails, and phone calls to beat a drive out of >them. the initial response was that they didn't make that model drive >anymore so they couldn't help me! they made no offer of any sort other >than threatening to sue me at one point. ymmv, but in my case they were >bung holes all the way. > >Eric Bland wrote: >> >> Philip Stortz wrote: >> >most makers have been terrible about caring once it's out of >> >warranty, or have simply given people more garbage drives under >> warranty >> >until it wasn't the makers problem any more. >-------- >> Disks have a known (limited) life span--you know what the warranty >> length is when you buy (or you should) and no complaint when you exceed >> that time. >--------------- -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! <http://www.applelinks.com>
