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Maxtor Announces 80GB Platters
mackstann writes "StorageReview has some info on Maxtor's new 80GB hard disk platters. The new drives based on the 80GB platters will come in capacities up to 160GB, with some having Serial ATA and/or 8MB caches. They are also resurrecting the (formerly Quantum) Fireball name, shortening their warranty (previously 3 years, now 1 year), and adding some slim (38% thinner) drives to their lineup." New products like this make me feel like I'm not keeping up fast enough. I bought a 100GB drive last spring and it's not even half full yet!
So? Back it up and then take a magnet to it, or something else that makes it very hard to tell what happened. Do this about a week before it's due. Oh, and don't forget to get the no-hassle warrantee plans if there is one available.
That way, when you return it, you get a new drive. I had a friend who had several problems with CD-RW drives. When his first one broke under extended warrantee at Future Shop, he returned it and they replaced it with a newer model (old model wasn't available anymore). It happened again with the newer model in about 6mo and he go a newer one again, which had no problems
Sometimes I wonder if he had bad luck or good magnets...
In 1992 I paid something like $600 for a stolen full height 1.2gig hard drive. The thing took more than a minute to spin down and sounded almost exactly like a jet turbine during spin up. When the heads parked it was an evil sound that made you afraid to touch the computer.
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