> I thought about a Jaz Drive but with SCSI drives autioned off cheap, why 
> bother. Just got a great Seagate 4.3gig SCSI FAST/WIDE for less than $200.00.

Several reasons:

- The $200 drives typically are 5400 RPMs, which offers as much thruput as a
typical UDMA IDE disk

- Joe's Hard Disk Vendor typically are getting rid of last stock, which causes
problems when you go to return a defective one...

- There is a reason those drives are not only so cheap, but offered at an
auction to begin with.  Typically its problematic drives, vendors that go out of
business, outdated models.. There must have been a thousand Micropolis drives at
onsale.com shortly after they announced they were going out of business.  And I
wouldn't have bought a single one of them, as there was a reason Micropolis went
out of business, and I honestly heard horror stories about those drives that
people did buy there..

I bought a legitimate IBM 4.3G disk for $290 or thereabouts about three months
ago from a real dealer, which typically gives piece-of-mind.

(I won't mention that the drive did in fact go bad, and I'm still strugging with
both IBM and the friggin vendor to get a replacement after two weeks, because
that's not the point :)

> Only the experienced walk with a limp .....

Amen brother!

Dave


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