WD Special edition - competition from Seagate?

[Eric Ball]

There's a review at
http://www.storagereview.com/articles/200301/20030110ST3120023AS_1.html
that has the 120GB/8MB SATA version benchmarked with the 200GB/8MB
version of the WD drive.

Only Western Digital 'JB' (http://support.wdc.com/warranty/policy.asp)
or IBM deskstar 8MB cache
(http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/en/warranty/english3.htm) have 3 year
warranties. Everything else including the Barracuda V
(http://www.seagate.com/support/service/warranty.html) has been reduced
to a standard 1 year warranty, with the exception of India, where both
Seagate and Samsung still offer 3 year warranties on all HD's
(http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=5880).

Try www.razorprices.com though they don't have every Australian online
retailer because they're opt-in only (so they're possibly scared of
breaching the retailer's copyright).
www.google.com.au can find you only web pages that are hosted in
Australia, though they don't have an Australian Froogle here yet.

You might save some $ at the computer fairs too.

-Eric


-----Original Message-----
From: linux-admin at lists.samba.org [mailto:linux-admin at lists.samba.org]
On Behalf Of Burn Alting
Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 11:33 PM
To: Linux user group
Subject: WD Special edition - competition from Seagate?


Hi Peoples,

Has anyone seen any performance benchmarks comparing the

	Western Digital WB1200JB (120GB, 7200rpm, 8MB Cache ATA-100)
verses
	Seagate ST3120024A (120GB, 7200rpm, 8MB Cache, ATA-100)

Hunting around the web here in Australia I've found

	WB1200JB 	$375.00
	ST3120024A	$322.00

Both have 3 year warranties also?

Thanks

Burn

PS. I "think" I saw a post here once about 'price searching' - that is
web 
price crawlers like www.tomshardware.com - has anyone seen an equivalent
here 
in Australia? How would they work? I suppose in a worst case one could 
generate a utility to grab price lists off the web, put them into a 
'standard' dumb form and provide an engine to access it. Would this be a

breach of the retailer's copyright - providing a secondary indirect path
to 
information stored on their site?