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Re: [opensuse] Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population [ Was: About Backing Up]
- From: David Brodbeck <gull@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 17:09:45 -0800
- Message-id: <45DB9BD9.6040302@xxxxxxx>
Randall R Schulz wrote:
> Now, if they extend the warrantee well beyond the true MTBF,
> then they'll be paying for a lot of replacements, and it would be
> foolish or inept of them to do so.
Although it's not as if they'd be paying for *new* replacements. When
I've had to do a warranty return on a hard disk, I 've never gotten a
new replacement; I've gotten someone else's failed drive that they've
"refurbished."
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> Now, if they extend the warrantee well beyond the true MTBF,
> then they'll be paying for a lot of replacements, and it would be
> foolish or inept of them to do so.
Although it's not as if they'd be paying for *new* replacements. When
I've had to do a warranty return on a hard disk, I 've never gotten a
new replacement; I've gotten someone else's failed drive that they've
"refurbished."
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