On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Jason Jorgensen wrote: > I heard that OEM IBM drives are completely without warrenty from IBM. > You may get some warrenty from the vendor though, but that varies. IBM intends their OEM drives to be used in systems. Like with many other products, vendors stretch the limits of the OEM agreements by selling bare drives. In these cases, IBM feels that those vendors are responsible for support. > Anyone know that this is correct? Correct enough to be true at least some times, which means that in trying to be cheap, you're gambling with the sort of support that you can rely on. > IBM is my drive of choice, and if one fails I am just prepared to buy > another. In that case, why not just pay the extra few bux to buy a non-OEM drive, to make sure you get the support? And BTW, drive research is one of the biggest things IBM does! I've had excellent support from them, even in cases where I was only _considering_ buying one of their drives. Andy > > > 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.