Re: SATA vs UATA vs ...?

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Author: Joe and Colleen Huber
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Subject: Re: SATA vs UATA vs ...?
I wasn't specifically told that the warranty would be voided if I were to do
so. Mostly a concern/worry based on some mumbo-jumbo on the HP website about
incurring additional costs under warranty if you "modify the system" there
by making it "harder to service" (or something of the sort)... that and the
tendency of the big name manfactures to be at beck and call of Microsoft...

Haven't decided what I'm going to do. The new system is still in the box...
I was thinking that 250G UATA Maxtor from costco (and I suppose chew up a
PCI slot) putting a 100G or so partition that leaves room to do something
later with a distro in another partition. Then for the time being just wipe
W2000 on the Dell P4/450 and put Debain on. The Dell is still chugging at 5+
years - thou I opened it last night and I'm surprised it hasn't burst into
flames with all the dust sitting in there (you could grow potatoes in the
damn thing)...



> From: Chris Gehlker <>
> Subject: Re: SATA vs UATA vs ...?
> Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 11:50:22 -0700
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> On Dec 14, 2004, at 10:30 AM, Rudolfo Munguia wrote:
>
> It is difficult to follow what you are saying here. Certainly both
> personal computers generally and drives specifically have fallen in
> price since SATA drives were introduced. I don't doubt that SATA drives
> may cost the same or more as ATA drives when purchased individually. I
> don't think that means much at this point.
>
> All that said, I certainly don't doubt anyone's personal experience. I
> wish Bill would elaborate on what Dell and HP say.
>
> Joe started this discussion with a concern about voiding the HP
> warranty if he put Linux on his new machine. Is the HP warranty really
> windows only?
> ---
> Vegetarians eat Vegetables, Humanitarians frighten me


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