5 Years, when the amount the spin cycle lifetime is increased with 6min spin downs is 2-3 years max. And yes the valid point is who cares about warranty when the data might be bung.
Environment is nice and all. I guess the lesson is don't buy crap enclosures marketed at gamer/user markets when you can buy a cheap enclosure and put your own discs in it. On 14/12/2007, Marvin Pascual <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 12/13/07, Joel Wiramu Pauling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Whats the current warranty on these enclosures by the way? > > I got one Seagate FreeAgent Pro 500GB USB from the SITEX event and I > don't care about the warranty. What I'm concerned with is the files > that I am backing up from my server. The main reason why I bought this > external drive because I want to have a backup of my files. The > warranty is useless IMHO because they (Seagate) cannot guarantee to > preserve your files once it crashed. They can only replace (at most) > your external HDD but not your files which IMHO are the most > important. > > Anyway, what I did on my Debian GNU/Linux Etch i386 server to fix(?) > this problem was I enabled the "allow_restart" flag of my kernel by > executing the following command during startup: > > /bin/echo 1 > /sys/class/scsi_disk/0\:0\:0\:0/allow_restart > > HTH. > > -- > MARVIN T. PASCUAL > Mobile No. +65 94567850 > Telephone No. +65 64049250 > SIPphone: 17471733463 > Free World Dialup: 863676 >
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