Why does a five-year warranty make them great? I own a couple seagates and they've been good so far. But the warranty doesn't really mean anything. They probably figured out that if they advertise a five-year warranty, they'll sell more drives, offsetting (or perhaps even exceeding) the cost of replacing drives further into the future. Besides, it's the data that's important, not the drive. And even if they make good on the warranty 4 1/2 years from now, it'll probably be a "refurbished" drive anyway. Would you trust that? Jonathan Osborne WHRE Tech Coordinator p: 612.624.1217 e: jwo at umn.edu Marc Skinner said the following on 10/03/2007 16.03 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Troy.A Johnson wrote: >>>>> On 10/3/2007 at 3:12 PM, in message <4703F7C5.40107 at e-skinner.net>, Marc >> Skinner <marc at e-skinner.net> wrote: >>> Chad Walstrom wrote: >>>> Is it the 7200.10 series or 7200.9 series. Go for the .10 if you can >>>> get it. NewEgg.com has the .10 series for $119 as well. >>>> >>> yup it is: >>> Device Model: ST3500630AS >>> 16mb of cache as well! >> I bought a couple of the 7200.10 disks recently, but one is clicking a bit. >> It works for now, but I see myself using that warranty sometime in the future. >> > > i learned my lesson a long time ago, i don't have any drives in my house > that aren't raid-1 or raid-5. it is a life saver! i also do backups of > my most critical data, so far, raid has saved me from ever having to dip > into a restore. but there will come a time. the seagates are great > cause they have a 5 year warranty. i know have 10 of those drives, i'll > see what happens, but so for 6 of them have been running non-stop for > about 4 months now, the other 4 i just put into servers today.