[Pc_Support] Maxtor 100GB Serial ATA (SATA) drive $99.99 - $65.00rebate

[Whaxiac Patrick]

On Monday 21 November 2005 15:49, Damien McKenna wrote:
> > Now Maxtor-Quantum is their own fab.
> > So is Seagate.
> > So is Hitachi.
> > Western Digital is basically Hitachi right now (and IBM
> > before that).
>
> So these three/four companies are the only ones to manufacture their own
> drives?
>
> > But most OEM products are sold dirt-cheap for cost, and that
> > means the worst of the batch.  Hence why many only carry a 1
> > year warranty.
>
> Would you be concerned about OEM drives that still had the full 3-year
> or 5-year warranties?  NewEgg et al have them much cheaper than the
> retail versions.
Used SCSI Drives still have warrantees, in many cases; SCSI drives usually 
have 7 years on the warrantees!  I buy off of eBay, and try to get 50 Gb 
drives.  Have several 18 Gb SCSI drives.  

The thing is, the SCSI drives are built to run for 7 years,  24 hours a day, 
for 265 days, non-stop!  If you check the boxes and warrantees of most IDE 
drives, they are meant to only run 8 hour days (intermittant duty).

The SCSI drives do multiple reads/writes, so are better suited for Linux, I 
believe.   

Correct me, if I am wrong. 

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