From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 30 14:17:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFED337B401; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 14:17:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1E5C43E6E; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 14:17:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Received: from gray.sea.gr (patr530-b196.otenet.gr [212.205.244.204]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g9UMHiun027062; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 00:17:46 +0200 (EET) Received: from gray.sea.gr (gray [127.0.0.1]) by gray.sea.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g9UMHBW1016658; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 00:18:05 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by gray.sea.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id g9UKQL4m008698; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 22:26:21 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 22:26:20 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Disk reliability (was: Tagged Command Queuing or Larger Cache ?) Message-ID: <20021030202620.GD1882@gray.sea.gr> References: <20021028205222.G61008-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org> <1035857031.77698.57.camel@chowder.localdomain> <20021030002912.GB74811@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021030002912.GB74811@wantadilla.lemis.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2002-10-30 10:59, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > 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? That I am a terribly lucky man to have bought my WD disk one year ago. The warranty that came with it explicitly mentions 3 years :-) I'll have to find another disk manufacturer in about 1.5 year or so, but looking for the "currently best thing" is part of the plan anyway, so no big worries until then. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message