[ltp] Recommendation for new disk drive

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Wed, 03 Feb 2010, Dom wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
> <hmh@hmh.eng.br> wrote:
> > Both Hitachi and Seagate have decent enough engineering and firmware
> > (Hitachi is better), but AFAIK Seagate warranty is better (but never buy
> > anything Seagate that isn't backed by a 5 year warranty, it means they think
> > that product is trash).
> 
> Would that mean that most (if not all, I don't know their full product
> line) Momentus drives are to be avoided now?

I don't know.  When they had 5yr all across the line, anything with less
than that was really to be avoided.  If they have bumped down the warranty
on the entire line, it might either mean they will use shoddier factories or
components, or that these new high-density drives are far less reliable than
the older ones and would give too many returns on warranty past 3 years.

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh