ASI? Reputation, hahahahaha. Somehting change in the past 10 years with them? They're nothing special from memory, no better or worse than ZZF or NE. When a drive dies it's not the resellers fault and they simply pass the buck onto the OEM vendor. Resllers sell what sells & makes profit, not what is the best!
We're all missing the point that most drives can handle many G's of force when powered off. Failures are more likely due to hotter installations than brand, packaging style or shipping. As to 1yr vs 3 or 5, sure you can expect they put "higher end" components into longer warranty drives but then re-read the previous sentence! What's a great brand today, is crap tomorrow, is great again next week.... Not to mention perception of failure rates tend to be as over inflated as MTBF estimates since all most people do is complain things failing not banter about how long they last. I thought the Google study implied that off-the-shelf drives of all brands tend to have failures about the same rate? Keep it cool, don't trash the hell out of it, don't power/thermal cycle it too often, run it on a quality PSU attached to a UPS and hope for the best is all you can do. What happened to our resident data recovery guy Tim? We could use some insights from him right now! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wint`erlight" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "The Hardware List" <hardware@hardwaregroup.com> > Sent: Saturday, May 12, 2007 11:42 PM > Subject: Re: [H] Seagate drive died > >> >> I think it has more to do with how drives are shipped from the vendor. >> Vendors use to send these out in boxes with big foam inserts, but now >> you are lucky if they secure it in bubble wrap. I have bought > > What does it take to convince people that there are many reasons to > avoid name brand computers? In just the hard drive arena, name brand > computer manufacturers buy 1 year hard drives. That is all the warranty > most offer and they are not going to pay for 5 year hard drives. You can > bet the quality of a Seagate or WD 1 year drive is nowhere near the > quality of a 5 year drive. > > This thread is about other than name brand computers I assume. It is > about who you purchase your hard drives from. My supplier, ASI > http://www.asipartner.com/ packages their merchandise very well. Not > only in packaging does the choice of supplier count, but also in who you <snip> > Still, I have not gotten to your situation. Don't you think Seagate and > WD ship their best 5 year drives to large wholesalers like ASI who have > to continually defend their own reputation to OEM's they sell > merchandise to? My bets are any 2nds do not go to ASI. So where do the <sorry to just long to be quoted completely> ____________________________________________________________________________________ Food fight? Enjoy some healthy debate in the Yahoo! Answers Food & Drink Q&A. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=396545367
