[mythtv-users] Booohooohoooo......

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 04:46:24PM -0600, kim Gross wrote:
> > I *am* pleased with WD's quick turnaround on advance RMAs and their 
> > generous 5-year warranty on these drives.  They also don't make you jump 
> > through hoops to do an RMA, unlike Maxtor, who insists on a trouble code 
> > from their diagnostic CD.
> 
> Lucky you.  I did an advance RMA on a 250 gig SATA last year and it took 
> them 2 weeks to ship the replacement to me.  I had the bad drive shipped 
> back to them and received into there system a week before they even 
> shipped out the advanced shipment RMA.  I was not happy.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but -- and I'm looking at you RAID
people here, not you, Kim :-) -- if you don't have a spare matching
drive in-house, you're fooling yourself.

Cheers,
-- jra
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