Hi Harry, nice to hear from you. > I'm guessing maybe 2 yrs since 40gig was a common size. Maybe a > little less. So in reference to your statement of `never' having > returned one. How long does `never' span in this case?
OK, that is possible I guess, I don't know when the first 40Gb was sold, I thought it was longer than that. > > > I've actually never had to return one yet. So I was assuming they were above > > good, in fact excellent. Can the original poster let me know where this > > 'timebomb' information is please? I'd like to read it. > > If one of your buyers had a failure would it be retured to you? Or > would you have a reason to know it had happened? Definitely, yes. There's no WD direct here. EVERYTHING that fails will come back to me guaranteed within the warranty period. > What I'm getting is trying to see if your experience is just your own > usage or your customer base too. Both, I wouldn't base it just on my experience, trust me, that wouldn't be a fair judgement. Your point is very valid Harry, it is POSSIBLE the drives haven't reached their 3 year warranty period yet, BUT, believe me, with the amount of drives that rip through here, I certainly would have expected at least one back by now. We used to use Quantums, but the failure rate was too high. We tried IBMs, and, would you believe it? Right smack in the middle of the period where the IBMs had a high failure rate as well. Basically what I'm trying to say that I've returned at least one drive of nearly all brands we've tried (we even tried seagate for a short period), and I've haven't had to return a WD yet. But only time will tell I guess. _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
