[mythtv-users] BE Disk / Filesystem Layout
Brian Wood
beww at beww.org
Tue Apr 17 16:52:50 UTC 2007
On Apr 17, 2007, at 10:15 AM, ryan patterson wrote:
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> A five year warranty is not marketing. A five year warranty is a
> five year warranty. I can't talk about seagate in particular, but
> I have gotten six different hard drives replaced under warranty. I
> switched to SCSI years ago primarily because of the longer warranty
> for SCSI drives. The longer warranty is the primary reason why
> SCSI is more expensive not hardware cost. For a harddrive that
> will be powered on as much as a MythTV drive the longer warranty is
> very important.
For you it apparently is. For me, if an 80 or 120GB drive that I had
purchased 3 or 4 years ago failed I would just replace it with a
larger one, even if it was still "under warranty". It's just not
worth the hassle, plus the shipping cost, for a drive I could buy
today for $35. The shipping might cost me $20 so I would be "saving"
$15 in order to get an obsolete small-capacity drive, just not worth
it. Remember too, if you read your warranty, that the maker has the
right to "replace" your drive with a used one, not a new one, and you
do not get any additional warranty beyond your original purchase.
Today's 500GB drives might be different, but I doubt it. I suspect
that in 3 to 5 years they will be available just as cheaply as the
80-120GB units today.
There might be factors that change this picture. Small form-factor
drives carry a price premium, and if you are outside the USA the
financial situation might well be different.
There are certainly differences between high-end SCSI drives and
consumer IDE/SATA units other than the warranty. You could start with
a 15,000 RPM rotational speed. If you wish to believe the differences
are only in the warranty then there's not really much I can do to
change that belief though.
If you have had to replace 6 drives under warranty I'd seriously
consider another vendor.
The bottom line is that I don't want a warranty replacement, I want a
drive that doesn't need to be replaced, and I'm happy to pay for that.
Brian Wood
beww at beww.org
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