Getting that new hardware itch...

[Rick Sivernell]

On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 18:44:33 -0800
Bob Hemus <bobhemus at sisqtel.net> wrote:

> On Mon, 2005-12-26 at 19:55 -0500, Kurt Wall wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 26, 2005 at 03:50:03PM -0800, Bob Hemus took 23 lines to write:
> > > Fellas, I received some $$ for Christmas.  What is the opinion on 
> > > Hitachi  drives?  Any better or worse for equal money?
> > > Thanks,
> > > Bob
> > 
> > If you are talking hard drives, I'd still have to go for Seagate
> > SATA drives. They can be had at very competitive prices at newegg.com.
> > They might not be as cheap as Maxtor or Western Digital, but, for my
> > money, the reliability is worth the small premium. I think Hitachi
> > bought IBM's DeathStar line of disks, so I'd stay away from those, too.
> > 
> > Kurt
> 
> I finally got a Seagate @ Best Buy, that's where my gift certificate
> was.  160 gig for $109.  Haven't installed it yet.  I need a windoze OS
> for my insulin pump.  I can download the pump info and edit the onboard
> settings on the pump with it.  Also, e-mail download info to doc.
> Haven't made up my mind whether to get an XP upgrade or just run my old
> 98 and try to keep it clean (ha ha-- just a figger of speech).
> Bob
> 

Bob

 Is your system a Dell? If so, we have a 1st Sat sale every month and I got the XP pro
disk for $15.00, it is not the box ver, but the rebuild system. I installed it on my
Dell LP and it registered at M$ just fine and got all of the updates to xp.

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