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

[Steven Adeff]

On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 11:54 PM, John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 11:40 AM, Calvin Dodge <caldodge at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 9:32 AM, Robin Hill <myth at robinhill.me.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>> I'd guess the change in warranty is more a streamlining measure (with
>>> the current economic climate) than a reflection on the quality of the
>>> drives.  Definitely worth bearing in mind when looking for new drives
>>> though.
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>
> I have stayed as far away from them as I can being that they bought
> IBMs drive division and I had more than my share of dead deskstars. I
> guess it has been long enough. If seagate does not want my exclusive
> business I can give hitachi a try next big purchase.

That silly mentality is what is killing Ford/GM right now. Hitachi
does in fact make very very good drives, none of which have the
problem that *one hardware revision* in the Deskstars had that gave
them the Deathstar nickname. I owned some Deskstars back before the
fiasco and they were some of the best drives I ever owned.

-- 
Steve
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