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** Reply to note from dewar@GNAT.CS.NYU.EDU 06/21/95 07:57am -0400 > "There's another way to do it it. Instead of buying a 1.2 GB Thinkpad drive, > buy a 1.2 GB bare drive and a 170 MB Thinkpad drive. Open 170 MB case, > replace with 1.2 GB drive, sell 170 MB drive. Does somebody with the prices > handy want to figure how much that works out to?" > > that of course won't work now, because bare 1.2 gig drives are not available > in the end market. Later on that is perfectly reasonable, and others have > done this with smaller drives. Of course you are losing the guarantee, but > if you don't care about guarantees, this is a pefectly reasonable approach. How long is the warranty? The warranty on the IBM OEM (bare) drive I bought was 1 year. That warranty would be unaffected whether or not I placed the drive inside a plastic housing. You may lose the warranty on the smaller drive, but for a 170 Megger (if IBM still sells those) the cost shouldn't be that great. The reason I originally went this route when I got my 340 MB drive was because the price differential between the Thinkpad and bare drives amounted to a 70% "insurance premium." i.e. getting the TP drive would've gotten me a plastic case and possibly longer warranty for 70% the cost of getting a second bare drive. I decided to get the bare drive. If it died after a year, I could buy another one and only be down 30%. It might be interesting to see how the price on the 1.2 GB drive works out once it's widely available. _______________________________________________________________________ |\ ______________________________________________________________________\ | | | | | John H. Kim "Just try telling the IRS you don't feel like | | | jokim@mit.edu 'contributing' this year come April" - Bob Dole | | | jokim@uni.uiuc.edu on Bill Clinton's avoidance of the word "taxes." | \|_______________________________________________________________________|