>
 > Actually if you check their web site. They brag about the new policy and
 > as long as it's with in the manufacturing
 > date let's say 03-30-2005 no matter who owns it. the warranty is good
 > thru 03-30-2010.

      I lost confidence with Seagate years ago when their ST251's seemed to
have a 50%+ failure rate.

 >
 > The $50 dollar rebate also helps. IDE AT and Serial are included. Very
 > quiet...

      I've been using Hitachi, they're extremely quiet also, and do have a
36mo warranty from 1st retail sale.

 >
 > I used Western Digitals for years but lately they just aren't what they
 > once
 > were.
 > I do recommend keeping the drive partition under the 137 gig barrier. I
 > hate having to "count" on a controller to maintain the full size
 > of the drive.


      It depends on what OS, we're using a slew of 250gb drives in a RAID5
array under Linux with good results.

 >
 > A few years ago I wasn't too happy with Seagate during the merger of
 > Conner
 > and Seagate. I had Hard drives
 > branded as Seagate but booted as Conner drivers. (Old stock re-labeled)
 > But
 > all and all Seagate products were
 > good. Just somewhat higher priced at the time. What keep me in the
 > Western Digital and Maxtor camps were the rebates.


      I lost interest with Maxtor for a while after their buyout of
Miniscribe.

 > I am not sure if they are making any more SCSI drivers But then again
 > look at what we continue to run for software :=)

      You have my sympathies, we're using Linux primarily here, but I'm still
wth OS/2 on my personal machine.






                       .....Bob

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