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

[Homer Whittaker]

Homer Whittaker wrote:
40 GB used to be fine but I have found that in today's world I start to 
get messages in re the fullness of the disks and that makes me nervous. 
I also do not like the fact that it a pain to switch into two new 
drives, and I also always loose something in the transfer.
Which is worst "time out" or "full"


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>
> 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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