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- From: psybeast@dracut.keps.com (Andy Seymour)
- Subject: Re: Any Experience With "Pre-Owned Electronics"?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.162048.22310@dracut.keps.com>
- Originator: psybeast@dracut
- Lines: 45
- Sender: news@keps.kodak.com (KEPS News Service)
- Organization: Kodak Electronic Printing Systems
- References: <1ebnuaINN7lf@pollux.usc.edu>
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 16:20:48 GMT
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- In article <1ebnuaINN7lf@pollux.usc.edu> suhler@pollux.usc.edu (Paul Suhler) writes:
- > I'm considering buying a $329 reconditioned Syquest 44MB drive from
- > Pre-Owned Electronics, in Masschusetts. They give a 90-day warranty,
- > but I'm not sure that the risk is worth saving $70.
- >
- > Does anyone have any experience, good or bad, with them?
-
- I have had dealling with them on several occations. They have been
- friendly and helpful. Pre-Owed also happens to be just down the street
- from my office.
-
- Also I have thought of them for replacing a 800k floppy drive, but I never
- seem to come up with the money!!
-
- As for saving the money... The $70... The only drive that I know for under
- $400 is from Spin Inc [(800) 466-1200] also in Massachusetts... and I also
- happen to own one!!
-
- Spin's sister company, Spirit, makes some of MacWarehouses PowerUser
- equipment, namely the SyQuest drives...
-
- In most cases, the only real difference between SyQuest drives is the
- software, and to get a little bit more picky, the way they do their caching.
-
- There are not many things that one can recondition on a SyQuest... a power
- supply... the drive mech... some wires... ect...
-
- Things that you should look for is the service.
- What happens after that 90 day period????
- Who will service it????
- And the big one... Who will help if one can not read data off of a disk??
-
- For the money, the Spin hardware is the best value by FAR!! In all cases,
- it is the same internal mechs as everyone else!! SyQuest, Quantum,
- Toshiba, NEC, ect... Spin is just not as big!
-
- Hope that helps to cloud the issue!! ;-)
-
- PsyBeast
-
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