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Old June 12th 18, 07:30 AM posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Flasherly[_2_]
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On Mon, 11 Jun 2018 16:43:56 -0400, Flasherly
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WD Blue 2TB - WD20EZRZ

Around a dozen or less models for considering a 2 or 1 warranty. The
mood is a little different since I last bought a HDD. For one, nobody
wants to go the extra distance on a warranty. It's on your money to
make a claim, and, in the case of WD, best initially run a drive
serial# by them to see if the seller abided for a product actually
covered by the manufacturer. WD "new" OEM drives WD won't honor with
a replacement drive. Still, you do get to play the game of different
shipping schedules for businesses and consumers with FEDEX or UPS,
which may be stipulated as well a condition on the warranty. Why
drive across town for a USPS and $6 shipping, non-insured, when you
have to grease the hands of FEDEX/UPS charging $14 more than nearer $6
business schedule rates.

I quit shipping anywhere anyway when the rates changed into a big
blow-up inconvenience years ago, in trying to look forward to
bypassing that event when possible with other provided options.

Amazon is selling the WD through its own in-house channels, meaning
their hardcore incentive for marketing allure with a standard 30-day
free return on defective merchandise. And 8000 reviews, half of them
asking if it'll work on some Joe-Blow branded PC assembly, like Compaq
or HP -- an unstated standard, 'we'll stick you with a 15% surcharge
if you try acting like a numbskull for your reason for the return'.
Still I sometimes wonder how much dumber can 8000 aggregate reviews go
across 10 or 15, locked into a page, and numbered sequentially in a
push-button row for anality's sake beneath.

Huge difference in a diminished field of reviews between Newegg and
Amazon these days;- the former exhibits more sedentary approach across
equally dissatisfied customers: a fifth to a quarter who, for some
reason or another, will never buy XYZ HDD brand in their lifetime, to
be sure, ever again. No free shipping returns or lunches on NewEgg,
though, or anybody else, mostly, for nearer than not to wholesale
prices.

No doubt among correlations to business modeling from Gordon Moore...
1) Once it goes up 2) then it comes down.

Except to keep the prices interesting, business wise, Gordon has been
expanded upon -- a lot. In fact he's becoming obsolescent, according
to the plan. Smaller pieces of technological cookie-crumble and more
of business as usual these days.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law

So much for any earlier visions by now to move to indestructible SSD
prices plummeting into the earth's core. Backing up in 2T SSD
redundancy is not about $1000, not when the 2T mechanical drive I
bought can be configured for 3T for one-fifth the price in addition to
a 2T config. Suspiciously looks like where a 8TByte HDD, along with a
snatch for luck it won't crash and burn, begins making bunches of
sense in a big hurry.