two major failures after yesterday updates - RESOLVED

[Ed Greshko]

Mike Cloaked wrote:
>
> Ed Greshko wrote:
>   
>>     
>>> hardly surprising at all...consumer grade SATA hard drives have become
>>> unreliable and that is why none of the manufacturer's warranties them
>>> beyond a year now.
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> Really?  All of my Seagate drives that I purchase here in Taiwan have 3
>> year warranties.
>>
>>
>>     
>
> Yeah - well guess which make I just put in?  Seagate Barracuda - the old
> dead one was Samsung HD321KJ - so I can look forward to 3 years of reliable
> service minimum!
>   
No.  It just means that if it fails within 3 years you'll get a free
replacement.  :-)

FWIW, one of my systems has a Samsung that has been spinning now for
more than 4 years.
> Problem is that when you buy a new machine you don't have control over which
> make of drive is in it unless you know something I don't!
>   
For home use I generally construct my own system so I have full control.

In the past, when working on major projects, we often order systems "in
bulk" and HP and a few other vendords (at least here in Asia) would be
"happy" to let us specify the drive maker.  The price could be higher
when we did that.


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