[mythtv-users] OT: Seagate to reduce warranties on consumer drives to 3 years from 2009

John Drescher drescherjm at gmail.com
Wed Dec 17 18:54:29 UTC 2008


On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 1:46 PM, Steven Adeff <adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 11:54 PM, John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 11:40 AM, Calvin Dodge <caldodge at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 9:32 AM, Robin Hill <myth at robinhill.me.uk> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I'd guess the change in warranty is more a streamlining measure (with
>>>> the current economic climate) than a reflection on the quality of the
>>>> drives.  Definitely worth bearing in mind when looking for new drives
>>>> though.
>>>
>>>
>>> FWIW, my employer's hosting facility swears by Hitachi drives. Since they
>>> have a few hundred servers, I think their recommendation is more than
>>> anecdotal in nature.
>>>
>>
>> I have stayed as far away from them as I can being that they bought
>> IBMs drive division and I had more than my share of dead deskstars. I
>> guess it has been long enough. If seagate does not want my exclusive
>> business I can give hitachi a try next big purchase.
>
> That silly mentality is what is killing Ford/GM right now. Hitachi
> does in fact make very very good drives, none of which have the
> problem that *one hardware revision* in the Deskstars had that gave
> them the Deathstar nickname. I owned some Deskstars back before the
> fiasco and they were some of the best drives I ever owned.
>

I had over 50 of them before this problem. I generally keep using the
same manufacturer until they either have a bad batch or some other
reason (reduced warranty) that drives me to a different manufacturer.
Before these IBM drives I had purchased a similar number of WD drives.

John
John


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