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Even if manufacturers over time might be able to cut corners such that a
drive would often fail in its second year without too much risk of first-year failures, it seems unlikely that the cost savings could make up for the resulting bad publicity. That may not matter. The corporate world-view is often only 3-6 months. "If you haven't shown tangible results on the P&L in six months, someone else gets your job." For managers with the authority to make such cost-of-manufacture/durability tradeoff decisions, the inevitable bad publicity may be outside their window of fiscal reality. If they cut costs, even at the expense of real-world mtbf, the difference shows up on the balance sheet immediately, while they may be working somewhere else by the time the bill for that decision comes due. How many times in how many different corners of the industry have you seen this before? |
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"Rod Reaugh" wrote:
"Bill Todd" wrote in message ... "RodReaugh" wrote: Has anyone ever heard anyone claim that the length of a HD's warranty was simply a marketing and price point decision by the mfg and the warranty length has nothing to do with expected drive life? Somewhere I think I remember someone making such a claim and a bunch of trolls tried unsuccessfully to shoot him down? As usual your pompous jibber below says little. The deal is that HD warranties were ALWAYS a marketing and price point decision and had little to do with expected HD life. Since the 1 year and 3 year warranty HDs ALREADY had an expected life of over 5 years. Which is what he said, idiot. Classic RonnieRetard - attack someone even when they are in agreement! Wacko jibber snipped. |
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chrisv wrote in
: Wacko jibber snipped. Shouldn't the post be empty, then? There's nothing but wacko ranting coming from the ronnie-beast. -- /Jesper Monsted |
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marketing ploy or not customers benefit by being able to send dead drives
back for a new one instead of forking out money again to get another flaky hd. bottom line is a 5 year warranty beats the **** out of a 1 year warranty "Ron Reaugh" wrote in message ... Has anyone ever heard anyone claim that the length of a HD's warranty was simply a marketing and price point decision by the mfg and the warranty length has nothing to do with expected drive life? Somewhere I think I remember someone making such a claim and a bunch of trolls tried unsuccessfully to shoot him down? |
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On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 20:15:31 GMT, "Monster"
wrote: marketing ploy or not customers benefit by being able to send dead drives back for a new one instead of forking out money again to get another flaky hd. bottom line is a 5 year warranty beats the **** out of a 1 year warranty True. And in the past when I tried to exchange the dead drive with a new one, they often send a bigger hard drive. Long ago I had Maxtor 5.6GB that went south. Got it RMA'ed and they sent me 20GB. A few years ago, it died. Got it RMA'ed (since the warranty on 20GB was from date of manufacture and not from the 5.6's original warranty) and they sent me a 100GB. That one outlasted the warranty before it died. Maxtor used to be good before but now they sell garbage. :/ Anyway even if in 5 years your 250GB drive goes south and there are faster and better drive on the market, get it exchanged anyway because the replacement drive may be the better one. -- To reply, replace digi.mon with tds.net |
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Impmon wrote in
: Maxtor used to be good before but now they sell garbage. :/ Maxtor used to be the absolute worst **** money could buy, then they got very good, but are losing quality again, it seems. Anyway even if in 5 years your 250GB drive goes south and there are faster and better drive on the market, get it exchanged anyway because the replacement drive may be the better one. Or use the 250 as boot drive when Windows 2008 needs 200+ GB disk space to install -- /Jesper Monsted |
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On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 20:15:31 GMT, "Monster"
wrote: marketing ploy or not customers benefit by being able to send dead drives back for a new one instead of forking out money again to get another flaky hd. bottom line is a 5 year warranty beats the **** out of a 1 year warranty True. However, I rarely by warranties in isolation, and the HDD with 1 year warranty may beat the **** out of the HDD with the 1 year warranty for whatever reason you bought the HDD in the first place! Malc. |
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Maxtor used to be the absolute worst **** money could buy, then they got
very good, but are losing quality again, it seems. Are you talking about the IDE drives or SCSI drives. My experience of the IDE drives is that, if they last, they are very good. Regards the SCSI drives though, they always appear to be rated very highly - I have a few 10K3 drives and I was considering sticking with Maxtor for a forthcoming upgrade. Are there problems with the current 15K offerings? Thanks in advance for any feedback here. PM |
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"Malcolm Weir" wrote in message ... True. However, I rarely by warranties in isolation, and the HDD with 1 year warranty may beat the **** out of the HDD with the 1 year warranty for whatever reason you bought the HDD in the first place! Hmm, it sounds like you're into self mutilationg. |
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"Ron Reaugh" wrote in news:bQYNc.344282
: "Malcolm Weir" wrote in message ... True. However, I rarely by warranties in isolation, and the HDD with 1 year warranty may beat the **** out of the HDD with the 1 year warranty for whatever reason you bought the HDD in the first place! Hmm, it sounds like you're into self mutilationg. It sounds like he's into getting the right solution for the job instead of just going for budget. I don't mind getting a fairly short warranty period on the HDS gear and paying for the support afterwards. -- /Jesper Monsted |
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