On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 10:59, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > I've had trouble with BB drives. Given that they have (or had) a 3
What trouble? > year warranty, 1 year of experience isn't very much to go by. Hah, well not anymore.. I agree with your assessment about 1 vs 3 years, but as I said below it is basically impossible to know in advance. > > Personally I find that no HD manufacturer has a good reputation - > > they have all made trashy drives at one point. Give the general time > > it takes for problems to surface vs product lifetimes makes deciding > > what to buy a PITA :( > > That's a more valid point. > > Note that WD and Seagate have dropped their warranty on IDE drives > from 3 years to 1 year. What does this say to you? You can buy JB drives which have both a larger cache and a longer warranty. You can also purchase an extended warranty (but it costs about the same as the price difference between the BB and JB drives) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
