From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Oct 12 02:47:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id CAA11515 for hardware-outgoing; Sun, 12 Oct 1997 02:47:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware) Received: from bubble.didi.com (sjx-ca26-03.ix.netcom.com [204.31.235.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id CAA11509 for ; Sun, 12 Oct 1997 02:46:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from asami@bubble.didi.com) Received: (from asami@localhost) by bubble.didi.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) id CAA03910; Sun, 12 Oct 1997 02:46:11 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1997 02:46:11 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199710120946.CAA03910@bubble.didi.com> To: michaelv@MindBender.serv.net CC: darrylo@sr.hp.com, rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com, hardware@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <199710110530.WAA00881@MindBender.serv.net> (michaelv@MindBender.serv.net) Subject: Re: Assembling new machine From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk * I really don't have any complaints with them, either, but they are * basically in the same category as Bason. FWIW, I had to return a hard * drive for repair to Quantum that was over a year old, but under what * MegaHaus claimed was a two year warranty. MegaHaus said I had to * handle it with Quantum, and the Quantum guy said that I had purchased * an OEM drive that was only covered by a one year warranty, and that * MegaHaus did this on a regular basis. Still, to Quantum's credit, * they fixed it for free, anyway. * * If you want someone who will give you warm fuzzies, and take care of * any complaint, no matter how minor, these may not be the best places, * and you should be prepared to pay a little more. Um, what you just said above sounds very, very bad to me. I belive I know what I'm doing (I build disk arrays for research) but I would never buy a drive from someone who would lie about warranty. All IMO, of course. Satoshi