2005-02-22, 03:40 PM
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The Doink
Real Name: Scott
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Portland, OR
Posts: 20,335
Car: '09 OBXT, '02 WRX, '96 Miata
Class: PDX/TT-6
The way out is through
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Originally Posted by JoeCool
1 year warranty.
It is a good deal, but I'm not in on that warranty. I've already had too many drives fail to not get at least 3 years. Seagate offers 5 years on their drives, so that's probably what I'm getting from this point forward.
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Every drive I've purchased in the last 2 years or so have been Seagates.
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They all pretty much come off the same assembly line these days. Our outrageously expensive U320 15K SCSI drives don't last any longer than most household IDEs if used in the same manner. Left running 7x24 from the moment they are new. They either fail or not in the first couple months. After that, they last about 3-5 years, or until you DBAN them and throw them away.
And my thought on warranty is that if it doesn't fail in the first year, I most likely don't want a replacement anyway! 18 months ago, a 80GB drive was $99. 18 months from now, a 500GB drive will be $99. Or something like that. I sure don't want a replacement 2.1-8GB drive from 3-5 years ago. |
Sure, but something tells me that $99 250GB drive isn't anywhere near as quiet and as fast as my 3 Barracudas. Drive noise is an underrated feature. With the drives I've got, I can run two computers at my feet that are quieter than my roommate's computer that's in the next room.
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