I like the fact that I know I will have a working drive for five years. I put my drives in raid sets, so I really don't care if they fail, as long as two don't at the same time, I'm totally functional. With other drives, 1-3 years is more the norm. If one of those drives failed outside of the warranty, I have to shell out more money for a replacement drive. After five years it is typically more economical from a cents per GB, and performance to just purchase a better drive anyway, with Moore's Law and all. I don't have enough data to say I think Seagate drives are "better" then Hitachi, Western Digital or Maxtor (now owned by Seagate), but I just like the fact that I know I can use the drive for 5 years without having to spend any more money. I also don't have any problems with a refurbished drive, as long as it is still under warranty. Just my 2 cents. Jonathan Osborne wrote: > Why does a five-year warranty make them great? I own a couple seagates > and they've been good so far. But the warranty doesn't really mean > anything. They probably figured out that if they advertise a five-year > warranty, they'll sell more drives, offsetting (or perhaps even > exceeding) the cost of replacing drives further into the future. > > Besides, it's the data that's important, not the drive. And even if > they make good on the warranty 4 1/2 years from now, it'll probably be a > "refurbished" drive anyway. Would you trust that? > > > Jonathan Osborne > WHRE Tech Coordinator > p: 612.624.1217 > e: jwo at umn.edu > > Marc Skinner said the following on 10/03/2007 16.03 >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Troy.A Johnson wrote: >>>>>> On 10/3/2007 at 3:12 PM, in message <4703F7C5.40107 at e-skinner.net>, Marc >>> Skinner <marc at e-skinner.net> wrote: >>>> Chad Walstrom wrote: >>>>> Is it the 7200.10 series or 7200.9 series. Go for the .10 if you can >>>>> get it. NewEgg.com has the .10 series for $119 as well. >>>>> >>>> yup it is: >>>> Device Model: ST3500630AS >>>> 16mb of cache as well! >>> I bought a couple of the 7200.10 disks recently, but one is clicking a bit. >>> It works for now, but I see myself using that warranty sometime in the future. >>> >> i learned my lesson a long time ago, i don't have any drives in my house >> that aren't raid-1 or raid-5. it is a life saver! i also do backups of >> my most critical data, so far, raid has saved me from ever having to dip >> into a restore. but there will come a time. the seagates are great >> cause they have a 5 year warranty. i know have 10 of those drives, i'll >> see what happens, but so for 6 of them have been running non-stop for >> about 4 months now, the other 4 i just put into servers today. > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list