-=PCTechTalk=- Re: My Contraption

Becky,

Just a word of warning about external cases and putting in drives that are 
sold as internal drives into external cases.

I had an internal hard drive (that I believe was a Seagate or Maxtor - Now 
the same company) and put it in an external case that I had purchased.
At that time, external drives were a LOT more expensive than they are today.

At www.frys.com, you can purchase a 500 GB External USB 2.0 hard drive for 
$119 (it is $60 off - No rebates involved!)

These cases are made for their drives and have the cooling, included.  I am 
not sure of the warranty of this drive, but I believe it is 5 years.
I personally KNOW that Seagate has been very good with their warranty as I 
once  had an issue.  (I will not go through the whole story, but they messed 
up and sent me TWO replacement drives about 2 weeks apart, and I never could 
get them to take one back.  I was willing to send it back, but I wanted them 
to pay the shipping.   They had just moved to a new building and a new 
computer system and the guy finally told me.  It would be easier for 
everyone if I just keep the drive as an apology for taking so long in 
sending the first replacement and for my follow up calls.  He said I could 
register it for warranty and thanked me for my honesty.  (This was a 
supervisor who I asked to talk to when folks who answered the phone kept 
insisting they did not send me two drives...lol)

In any case, I was asked if my drive had been put in an external case.  When 
I asked why, I was told that the warranty ONLY covered their drives used 
internally.

Now I told this to someone else recently and the feed back they got on a 
tech list as no one had ever  heard of that.  (Now I admit, this was 
probably 3 yrs ago..and maybe policies have changed, but I still have the 
concern.)

Also, some drives have longer warranties than others.  Some are 1 yr, 2 yr 3 
yr and 5 yrs.

So, this is just a word of caution.

I always use to put drives in external cases, buy metal ones as they 
dissipate the heat better, but now that external drives are so much cheaper, 
I prefer to have the warranty on the case and the drive.

If an external drive case you purchase dies, it can kill the drive too. 
Just a thought.....

enjoy!

Rose
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Becky kane" <bekkykane@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 3:06 PM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: My Contraption


> Yes, I kind of put my foot in my mouth :-) True, one burner is enough but 
> if it goes out, then if you had a bottom DVD-R it might be useful. Don, 
> had it right though. I found a USB device that coverts Serial Drives 
> through your USB ports, I talking internal drives made to run outside the 
> case. Check it out, I'm buying 2 :-)
>
>  God Bless
>  Becky
> Jo Ann <bookworm54@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>  Becky,
>
> You can add it if you want. What I meant was one drive is really all you
> need if it's a DVD burner. You can burn and read all types of disks
> with it. You can even copy a disk with one drive, it just copies the
> disk to the hard drive first, then asks you to insert a blank disk and
> burns. That way you could add your old hard drive on the same cable.
>
> Jo Ann
>
>
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