My friend used to work for a used computer place, and he would bring home all of the bad hard drives that they normally threw out, and then we would just send them back to the vendor to get them replaced. We never had any trouble getting new drives or having the bad drive repaired. Just about every drive manufacturer too, IBM, Quantum, Fujitsu, Samsung, Maxtor... Never did any of the manufacturers question us, they just sent us new drives, and we probably did it with 50 or 60 drives (which then would promptly hit Ebay :) Jay > -----Original Message----- > From: dopp at acm.cs.umn.edu [mailto:dopp at acm.cs.umn.edu] > Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 8:05 AM > To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > Subject: Re: [TCLUG] vcr -- real-time DivX encoder for your TV card > > > Well, all of Mwave's OEM IBM drives seem to have 3-year warranties: > > http://direct.mwave.com/mwave/ProdHD-IDE-I.hmx?UID=&CID=&updep > ts=HD-IDE&DNAME=%3Cb%3EHard+Drives%2DIDE%3C%2Fb%3E&Back=ProdHD > -IDE-I.hmx? > > Gabe > > On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 07:20:43AM -0600, 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. > > > > Anyone know that this is correct? > > > > IBM is my drive of choice, and if one fails I am just > prepared to buy > > another. > > > > -- > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------------ > Gabe Turner | X-President, > UNIX Systems Administrator, | Assoc. for > Computing Machinery > U of M Supercomputing Institute for | University > of Minnesohta > Digital Simulation and Advanced Computation | > dopp at acm.cs.umn.edu > > "I know what you want! You coveteth my ice cream bar!!" > - Commander Hoek (Ren) in > "Space Madness" > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------------ > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >