[mythtv-users] BE Disk / Filesystem Layout
Yan Seiner
yan at seiner.com
Tue Apr 17 16:54:42 UTC 2007
Brian Wood wrote:
>
> On Apr 17, 2007, at 10:15 AM, ryan patterson wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> 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.
But sometimes you get a plum... Seagate waranteed a 9 GB 7200 RPM SCSI
driver for me with a 36 GB 15K cheetah. Apparently they didn't have any
9 or 18 GB drives around. So it cuts both ways. :-)
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