Out of the near thousand IBM Hitachi drives, I've only needed to RMA a couple, and they've never said anything about not buying the drives from them. Weird, maybe I got lucky. (shrug)
Brian Phillips wrote: > Scott Pabin wrote: >> Why don't any of you use Hitachi (IBM)? Been using IBM after >> switching from WD back in the last century. Even with the deathstar >> scare I still had more failures from the other brands, WD especially. >> Disclaimer: I treat my drives really well, cooler than baby's bottom >> (in the snow). > > Because of the 1 year old Hitachi Deskstar I just had to tell my SIL was > toast... No warranty because she didn't buy it from Hitachi, but some other > outfit. Hitachi tells her to take the drive there and see if there's a > warranty. > > I had a couple IBM deskstars. They died must faster than any WD I've owned. > I still have a 6 GB WD drive running. It must be going on 10 years now... > > I've heard Hitachi makes good commercial solutions (which company doesn't? > Service contracts have a lot of moolah.), but from what I've seen the > consumer drives really aren't as good as WD/Seagate (now only WD). > > -------------------- > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > > The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their > author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info (unsubscribe here): http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info (unsubscribe here): http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
