[Gllug] Life of hard drives

Thu Mar 6 23:44:23 UTC 2003

On Thu 06 Mar, Dermot Moynihan wrote:

> 
> I bought a Western Digital Caviar 7200RPM 40GB less than 2 years ago from 
> Simply Computers and it's already making threatening noises.
> 
> Just bought a Maxtor 80GB - while investigating what type to get I 
> discovered that IBM give 3 years guarantee. Western Digital, Maxtor and 
> Seagate now only give 1 year.
> 
> Not sure what it means but I don't feel it bodes well.
> 
   I understand that IBM are good in parts, they have factories in more than
one country, and some have better reputations than others. I think that
Seagate have longer warranties on some more expensive drives, (but then you
do pay for them).

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Chris Bell

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