[SunRescue] Re: Hard drive manufacturers

[Paul Khoury]

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Theodoropoulos <paul at anastrophe.com>
To: rescue at sunhelp.org <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Date: Thursday, April 20, 2000 2:54 PM
Subject: Re: [SunRescue] Re: Hard drive manufacturers


>At 01:55 PM 04/20/2000, you wrote:
>><rant force="20%">
>>
>>IBM is my absolute favorite brand of hard disks, IDE or SCSI.  I've not
>>only never had one fail, nobody I know has had one fail, either.  (This
>>also means I have no idea what their RMA procedure is like.)
>
>Strong agreement on that. IBM makes absolutely cutting-edge storage
>products, yet sells them at competitive prices. Hard to beat that combo.
>
Just as long as you never need tech support - their technicians
sound good on the phone, but don't know what they're talking about
(in most cases).

Their storage division is probably the better tech support part, but I've
had
bad luck with their ThinkPad, PS/1, and OS/2 portions.