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<blockquote data-quote="Brown Study" data-source="post: 340808" data-attributes="member: 3889"><p>It's not unlike buying a used car. You pays your money and takes your chances.</p><p></p><p>How well do you know the owner? How much mileage is on the odometer? Was it run 24 hours a day for five years? You could turn it on tomorrow and discover the drive is dead.</p><p></p><p>Can you compare prices? What's the same model or one close to it selling for elsewhere in your market area? Have you checked ebay just for prices?</p><p></p><p>I run a dual 1-GHz mirrored-door G4 that boots into System 9 (I still use it), and it's four or five years old. It has the original drive and it isn't giving me any trouble. But based on experience, I don't expect it to last much longer.</p><p></p><p>I have a small, free, startup app called SMARTReporter running in the menu to give me warning of impending doom. If you go for the deal, download it from versiontracker or macupdate.</p><p></p><p>You could check the same thing now from DiskUtility in the Utilities folder. Start it, and click on the very top hard-drive icon in the left pane, and read the info at the bottom next to S.M.A.R.T. Status. Mine reads Verified.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brown Study, post: 340808, member: 3889"] It's not unlike buying a used car. You pays your money and takes your chances. How well do you know the owner? How much mileage is on the odometer? Was it run 24 hours a day for five years? You could turn it on tomorrow and discover the drive is dead. Can you compare prices? What's the same model or one close to it selling for elsewhere in your market area? Have you checked ebay just for prices? I run a dual 1-GHz mirrored-door G4 that boots into System 9 (I still use it), and it's four or five years old. It has the original drive and it isn't giving me any trouble. But based on experience, I don't expect it to last much longer. I have a small, free, startup app called SMARTReporter running in the menu to give me warning of impending doom. If you go for the deal, download it from versiontracker or macupdate. You could check the same thing now from DiskUtility in the Utilities folder. Start it, and click on the very top hard-drive icon in the left pane, and read the info at the bottom next to S.M.A.R.T. Status. Mine reads Verified. [/QUOTE]
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