On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 2:20 PM, <carmo...@aol.com> wrote: > Also can the SMART be verified via a eSATA external enclosure?
Yes. eSATA is effectively a SATA connection to your computer using hopefully a better shielded eSATA cable. If you can get your computer to recognize the eSATA drive then you should be able to perform any function you could with any of your other SATA (or PATA) drives. > One good thing about Seagate is the 5 year warranty, no receipt necessary. Yes, no receipt is necessary, only the serial number. But, as has already been pointed out, the warranty period depends on where Seagate considered the drive to be in their product line and thus on Seagate's view of the market segment the drive is targeting. For a while Seagate was offering a 5 year warranty on all of their regular consumer drives. I have one or two of these and they are nearing the end of their warranty period. However, a year or three ago (not sure of the date), Seagate reworked their warranty periods. Now their regular drives have only a three year warranty just like the other drive manufacturers. I believe the common practice now is to reserve a five year warranty for the more expensive, supposed commercial/enterprise drives in a manufacturer's line. It's now one of the reasons to supposedly persuade you to pay more for those drives. I have no idea what sort of nonsense the drive manufacturers have come up with for the warranty on their external enclosures. Part of the reason I've never bought one of those is because I saw the warranty period listed as just one year on some of them. One year?!?! Are they kidding me? I figure it makes more sense to purchase an OEM drive with a three year warranty and mount it in an external enclosure I purchased separately. My take on the post about the used drives purchased from the swap board having "zero years warranty" is that if you separate the drive from its enclosure ... or possibly just open the enclosure in a way that can be detected by the manufacturer ... then In the manufacturer's opinion you have voided the warranty. Not an unheard of practice. But IMO it's yet another reason to avoid these pre-packaged external enclosures from the drive manufacturers. But maybe that's just me. -irrational john -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.
