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- Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!agate!ucsee.Berkeley.EDU!chiu
- From: chiu@ucsee.berkeley.edu
- Newsgroups: misc.forsale.computers
- Subject: Re: 213 MB IDE Hard Drive for sale
- Date: 23 Jul 1992 17:58:56 GMT
- Organization: University of California Society of Electrical Engineers (UCSEE)
- Lines: 19
- Message-ID: <14ms10INNpvd@agate.berkeley.edu>
- References: <2395@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> <Brss7p.1C3@cgl.ucsf.edu> <1992Jul23.063418.21446@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>
- Reply-To: chiu@ucsee.Berkeley.EDU
- NNTP-Posting-Host: ucsee.berkeley.edu
- Summary: Rumored Reliablity Problem
- Keywords: Maxtor 7213A
- Originator: chiu@ucsee.Berkeley.EDU
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- In article <1992Jul23.063418.21446@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> bn050@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Gwochyuan Chen) writes:
- >In a previous article, chrielli@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Chris Ellington) says:
- >>In article <Brss7p.1C3@cgl.ucsf.edu>, lfr@cgl.ucsf.edu writes:
- >>> Maxtor 7213A IDE Hard Drive for sale
- >>> [desc. deleted]
- >>> Price is $490 + shipping.
- >>Check August's Computer Shopper. DC drives (Dirt Cheap drives) has this
- >>same drive, for $459.
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- Local shop in my area is selling it for $479 (California Memory & Components,
- from July 21st issue of Computer Current)
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- A friend who works in a dealership indicated to me that the 7213A is
- unreliable; out of 15 drives his company has sold, 4 of them have already been
- returned for exchange (4/15 = 26.67%) This is second hand information, so
- do take it with a grain of salt.
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