Eberhard Roloff wrote:
John Andersen wrote:
Seagate offers 5 year warranties on sata these days. When it comes to buying drives, given two offerings with close-enough specs, I always go for the longer warranty. Any minor saving in price today will be lost when the drive fails in three years instead of 5 or 8.
Hi,
While it is always a good thing to have a longer warranty, I wonder what the perception of warranty is. Ex. I had drives fail well within the warranty timeframe. And it just means that you get your drive replaced or your money back. IMHO it does not necessarily mean that the drive will be more reliable.
Warranties give the manufacturer an incentive to make drives that will outlast the warranty period. Handling replacements or refunds costs far more than any profit they might have made. Warranties are not a guarantee that no drive will fail in that time. Only that they'll be replaced, repaired or refunded. So, longer warranties simply mean that most drives will last to the end of the longer warranty period. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org