[mythtv-users] BE Disk / Filesystem Layout

[Brian Wood]

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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