<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/17/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Brian Wood</b> <<a href="mailto:beww@beww.org">beww@beww.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Seagate's 5-year warranty is marketing, not engineering. IMHO the<br>hassle of keeping the documentation and perhaps the packaging, paying<br>for shipping, perhaps both ways, and going through the process of<br>replacement. Seagate/Maxtor (they are the same Co. now) knows that
<br>the odds of someone actually getting a warranty replacement for a 5-<br>year-old drive is close to nil. I'd rather pay more for a drive that<br>won't fail on me in the first place, even if it has no warranty.<br>
</blockquote></div><br>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.
<br><br>As for the original question I think a network attached storage RAID enclosure is what you want to use. That will allow you to use RAID without any Linux driver issues.<br><br>-- <br>_____________<br>Ryan Patterson