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From: Lll
Originally Posted by reechy
maxtor and WD also have 5 year warranties, depending on the product line. they're also prorated, which is a bit misleading.
How does a prorated warrenty work?
Ive had Seagates, Maxtors, WDs, and IBMs. I can say for fucking sure that IBM's Deskstar line eats ass.
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Originally Posted by Pete
I am no longer impressed with this type of storage. Granted it has a very high volume, but I am holding out for flash storage which is going to revolutionize the computer industry. There is already a product that allows you to plug in a series of RAM cards into a board and utilize the memory as storage. The result is instant boot (if the OS is stored on the RAM cards) as well as instant retrieval of data from storage. The only limiting factor of how "fast" your computer is at that point is your bus speed.
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Originally Posted by b00gers
How does a prorated warrenty work?
Ive had Seagates, Maxtors, WDs, and IBMs. I can say for fucking sure that IBM's Deskstar line eats ass.
Ive had Seagates, Maxtors, WDs, and IBMs. I can say for fucking sure that IBM's Deskstar line eats ass.
they called them death stars for a reason
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I have both maxtor and WD - the big issue that you guys don't seem to realize at fault is not the actual hard drives it is the systems they are placed in. HD's die due to heat failure since they are magnetic disks spinning if the heat gets too high it can also warp the HD/data just like cars and cause them to fail premmaturely.