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"Robert Morein" wrote:

Disk drives today have a one year warranty....

Wrong.

See http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=5603

Out of date, out of touch, wrong.

Seagate manufactures drives with 1, 3, and 5 years warranties. The
5-year warranty range applies to server end stuff, like the SATA
Barracuda in 36 and 72GB sizes. Interesting one, that, it actually
performs *worse* in single user applications than competing drives, but
wipes the floor with them when the command queue gets longer (generally
when more processes are vying for disk access).

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Matthew Weigel
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