[mythtv-users] OT: Seagate to reduce warranties on consumer drives to 3 years from 2009

[Preston Crow]

On Fri, 2008-12-12 at 09:40 -0700, Calvin Dodge wrote:
> FWIW, my employer's hosting facility swears by Hitachi drives. Since
> they
> have a few hundred servers, I think their recommendation is more than
> anecdotal in nature.

My employer ships hundreds of thousands of drives (if not millions) for
enterprise storage systems, and I believe that most of them are Seagate
drives.  But such information is useless, as the quoted story and mine
are in reference to the high-end drives, not the consumer models that
we're purchasing for our Myth systems.

Still, I'm hoping to upgrade to a new 7200.11 1.5TB drive if Santa
thinks I've been nice.  (Though I'm interested in the idea of a pair of
2TB drives eventually, keeping one spun down except for a nightly rsync
in case of disaster--a low-power RAID-1-ish solution.)