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From: Dave Uhring <duhring@charter.net>
To: Andreas Ntaflos <ant@overclockers.at>,
	Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: Saving a partially rotten IBM DTLA-307030 Harddisk
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 21:32:35 -0600
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On Thursday 02 January 2003 06:27 pm, Andreas Ntaflos wrote:

> I know, I think about half of all the DTLA 30xxxx disks that were
> shipped 2 or 3 years ago where faulty and died soon after being put
> to work. A friend of mine had one and it failed 3 months after he had
> bought it. Mine survived up until now and I was hoping that it would
> last another 2 or 3 years. But it seems that I was hoping to much.
> Disks are quite expensive though :)
>
> Anyway, thanks for the help everybody!

You get your drive replaced under warranty if it is less than 3 years=20
old.

http://www.storage.ibm.com/warranty/

I shipped mine to California and waited over a month, but IBM did=20
replace the drive.


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