[DM-MUG] Internal Hard Drives shopping

[Victoria L. Herring]

>1TB for $99
>
><http://promotions.newegg.com/NEemail/Jan-0-2009/FreeShipping29/index-landing.html>http://promotions.newegg.com/NEemail/Jan-0-2009/FreeShipping29/index-landing.html

you get what you pay for

Pros: Huge capacity.
Cons: Poor quality control. We have ordered 5 of these drives for 
clients - we are working on RMA #3. The first drive was DOA - click 
of death. The replacement was fine. Then we ordered two more a few 
months later - one seemed fine, the other was DOA - once again the 
COD. A week after installing the seemingly fine drive we are seeing 
signs of failure (had to rebuild a RAID) and hearing ominous sounds 
coming from the drive.
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Victoria L. Herring, Travel Research/Photography, 
http://www.JourneyZing.com; Lawyer, Discrimination/Civil Rights, Des 
Moines, Iowa http://www.herringlaw.com; personal blog, 
http://victorialherring.typepad.com/serendipity/
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