I don't know what's up in the UK, but I just heard here (Canada) that
due to the price drops and the failure rates, many "brand name"
harddrives are going to have 1 year or 2 year warranties, rather than
3-5 years.
Almost everyone I know who owns a 7400 rpm or faster drive has had to
get a replacement under warranty. I understand they are now going to
"liquid bearings" to try to resolve these problems.
Art
Tony Sleep wrote:
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>
> Mind you, I think they are worse now due to commodity pricing and high spin
> speeds - 5 dead in 2yrs each <3yrs old (Maxtor, Seagate, WD, Hitachi,
> Toshiba), and 1 newish IBM currently growing an occasional bad sector...
>
> I have never yet had any CDR go bad, after 6 years of storage, and the
> only time I've had a burn failure it has been my own silly fault.
>
> DVDR seems to be rated at 3-4yrs max at present. Hmm.
>
> Regards
>
> Tony Sleep -
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