[ale] Production Servers

James P. Kinney III jkinney at localnetsolutions.com
Mon Feb 3 10:44:25 EST 2003


I was shocked, too. There is a whole wall of them at CompUSA. Maxtor,
Conner, Seagate, et. al, all have a cheap, home user line. I saw some
drives with only a 90 day warranty. I have yet to see a SCSI with less
than 3 years on a warranty. Most have a 5 year.

On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 10:26, Geoffrey wrote:
> James P. Kinney III wrote:
> 
> > The fastest IDE drives now push bits around at the speed of the slowest
> > SCSI drives in production. It really is no speed test comparison. SCSI
> > drives are much more robust. Most SCSI drives have a 5 year warranty.
> > Most IDE drives have a 6 month warranty. That says a lot!
> 
> What?  Let's see, my Maxtor comes with 3 year warranty.  Granted, IDE is 
> not as robust as SCSI, but I don't think I've seen a drive with under a 
> 1 year warranty.
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