Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1997 10:51:35 -0700 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@MindBender.serv.net> To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) Cc: darrylo@sr.hp.com, rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com, hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Assembling new machine Message-ID: <199710121751.KAA07428@MindBender.serv.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of Sun, 12 Oct 97 02:46:11 -0700. <199710120946.CAA03910@bubble.didi.com>
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> * 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.
Which is why I now buy all my drives from Bason, and not Megahaus.
Bason has never tried to mis-lead me.
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Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@MindBender.serv.net
Contract software development for Windows NT, Windows 95 and Unix.
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