I heard that OEM IBM drives are completely without warrenty from IBM. You may get some warrenty from the vendor though, but that varies. Anyone know that this is correct? IBM is my drive of choice, and if one fails I am just prepared to buy another. Eric Stanley wrote: > I will beg to differ on IBM's customer service. The one experience I > had with them with a bad drive, was with a drive that was nearly out > of warranty (3 years old). I called them up and told them that I was > getting hoards of errors while running mke2fs and they agreed to send > me a new drive. The drive arrived within two days with a prepaid > shipping label to return the old one. I consider that good customer > service. > > Eric > > On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 12:32:04PM -0600, Jason DeStefano wrote: > > <snip> > > All these things have to be taken into account when comparing > > drives. I'd also pick Maxtor because they are a hard drive > > company and they are extrememly good at replacing any bad > > drives for 3 years. I dont see IBM being as customer friendly > > because their hard drive business is only a small part of what > > they do. > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list