From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 29 04:06:41 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id EAA02542 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 29 Aug 1996 04:06:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from buffnet4.buffnet.net (root@buffnet4.buffnet.net [205.246.19.13]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA02534 for ; Thu, 29 Aug 1996 04:06:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from buffnet1.buffnet.net (mmdf@buffnet1.buffnet.net [205.246.19.10]) by buffnet4.buffnet.net (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id GAA06988 for ; Thu, 29 Aug 1996 06:08:46 GMT Received: from buffnet7.buffnet.net by buffnet1.buffnet.net id aa04567; 29 Aug 96 7:13 EDT Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 07:12:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Stephen Hovey To: "Jeffrey M. Metcalf" cc: questions@freebsd.org, metcalf@imagine.com Subject: Re: Opinion on Refurbished drives In-Reply-To: <9607288412.AA841275164@ccgate0.bms.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 28 Aug 1996, Jeffrey M. Metcalf wrote: > My question is: > > In the opinion of the experienced, did I make a wise investment? No way. Ive found 1 in 3 new drives are junk - add on the fact that someone opened it and fiddled with the innards, and may or may not have introduced crud under the hood... No way.