[Pc_Support] Western Digital Enterprise 250 GB <pde; wd2500js

[Homer Whittaker]

Jason Boxman wrote:
> Damien McKenna wrote:
> <snip>
>   
>> I wouldn't want to specifically draw a correlation between the two, but
>> from a business perspective I'd feel safer buying a drive that came with
>> a 5 year warranty than a 1 or 3 year.  Couple that with RAID-1 or RAID-5
>> and you've got 5 years of data assurance - no guarantee but pretty darn
>> good.
>>     
>
> I prefer the longer warranty simply because I use drives for a very long
> time.  I have a pair of 40GB WDs I'm still running RAID 1 in my workstation
> and I have tons of free space and they're plenty fast for the old ECS K7S5A
> mainboard.  (Of course, by the time I got them WD had ceased offering three
> year warranties.)
>
> I mostly buy Seagates now because the rebate deals always ended up being
> sweetest for Seagates at time of purchase.  I've had worse experiences with
> Maxtors, though now they're owned by Seagate.  As Bryan said, though, the
> brand doesn't really matter.  So I just shop on price, doubledip rebates,
> and buy them in pairs.
>
> I see the warranty as guaranteeing I can depend on having a given disk
> around for usage for up to five years.  (It's actually by manufacture date,
> at least with Seagate, and not sale date, I think.)
Yes it is but I personally have had a difficult time getting the 
websales people to check the manufacturing date.  I assume that they do 
not have access to their parts in inventory or they actually do not have 
an inventory, getting their products from a master wharehouse. 
Homer Whittaker


>   If I don't have to buy
> a new disk every two years, that's fine by me.  40GB ought to be enough for
> anyone.  (I have two 30GB Maxtors RAID1'd with a 3Ware 6200 elsewhere.)
>
>
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