[DM-MUG] Internal Hard Drives shopping

[AB]

That's too bad. Newegg though was pretty good and helpful when I've bought from them. 


--- On Sat, 1/31/09, Victoria L. Herring <VLH at HerringLaw.com> wrote:

> From: Victoria L. Herring <VLH at HerringLaw.com>
> Subject: Re: [DM-MUG] Internal Hard Drives shopping
> To: "Des Moines Mac Users Group" <dmmug at dmmug.org>
> Date: Saturday, January 31, 2009, 11:48 AM
> > 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.
> -- Victoria L. Herring, Travel Research/Photography,
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