[mythtv-users] Should I use LVM on this new raid?
Michael Heironimus
mkh01 at earthlink.net
Thu Sep 27 00:17:16 UTC 2007
On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 04:02:01PM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote:
>
> On Sep 26, 2007, at 3:53 PM, f-myth-users at media.mit.edu wrote:
>
> >> Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 17:39:46 -0400
> >> From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra at baylink.com>
> >
> >> So that implies to me that people really believe that business will
> >> *pay* a 6:1 or more price imbalance for those drives, for no good
> >> reason.
>
> > It's just another manifestation of the old pre-MS saw that went,
> > "Nobody was ever fired for buying IBM." Regardless of how much
> > more expensive it was.
>
> It's also possible people are paying to get a longer warranty. Given
> the same overall failure rate, if a company charges more for a
> product it can afford to absorb the cost of more warranty returns.
A longer (as long as you want it) warranty is nice, but the 4H
replacement time is even nicer.
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Michael Heironimus
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