On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 08:40:59AM -0700, Brian Phillips wrote: > > In reality, it matters little. In 3 years' time it's usually time to > upgrade, and the HDD is usually one of the first parts to be changed out.
I've seen this argument in this thread a few times now, and it really bothers me. Sure, I might outgrow a drive after about 3 years, but the drive should still work. Often I'll use the drive for something else, like backups. Part of the reason I want a 5 year warranty is that if I want to get rid of it after 3 years, it still has a 2 year warranty, which makes it much more valuable. > IMO, the biggest thing the dropping of the warranty says to consumers is "we > don't trust our drives as much as we used to." I definitely agree with this. I think it's a shame that new hard drives seem to be getting less reliable instead of more reliable. -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 6868 -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info (unsubscribe here): http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
