[K12OSN] Just got approval

[Les Mikesell]

On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 08:14, Paul Vittorino wrote:
> >
> > That was probably the case a few years ago, but now I think
> > nearly all manufacturers take exactly the same mechanical
> > parts and slap on a different logic board.  There is still
> > the bottleneck with head position and since IDE is cheaper
> > you'll probably buy bigger drives that make this even worse.
> >
> I would actually tend to agree with David here.  My sole evidence is 
> the warranty of the drives. Maxtor has a 1 year warranty for their IDE 
> & SATA drives but a 5 year warranty on their SCSI drives.
> 

I wouldn't base technical decisions on marketing ploys. You
see the same thing in car batteries where you can buy
exactly the same construction for wildly different prices
and what you get for a lot of extra money is just the
longer warranty.  Remember that if the drive breaks in
4 years you'll get an exact replacement even though
by then it will likely be obsolete and you'd rather
have something up to date.

---
  Les Mikesell
   les at futuresource.com