> When I purchase a new drive I look for those designated "enterprise > grade". They're the ones with 5 year warranties.
Used to be everything had a 5 year warranty. Then the consumer/prosumer drives drives were reduced to 3 years. Now the consumer/prosumer drives are reduced to 2 years. The enterprise drives remain at 5 years, which is good. Seagate has relegated Barracuda to consumer/prosumer and has introduced new enterprise drives. Seagate's 2.5" offerings (Momentus, for example) are still the best in my book, which is somewhat strange as Seagate didn't come out with a 2.5" offering until years after IBM (now Hitachi) and Toshiba, and, later, WD. Historically, IBM's SCSI 2.5" drives (500 and 1000 megabyte capacity) were originally intended for a UC-Berkeley-inspired RAID product, with the drives physically mounted on a blade-type controller card. Product never got off the ground, but IBM had already purchased Mylex (remember them ?) which was supposed to design the cards, with IBM supposed to make the packaging and firmware. IBM had already confirmed the concept of commodity drives in a "Count-Key-Data" array product, the 9345, using its own 5.25" SCSI drives, and the 2.5" version was logically a "die shrink" concept applied to the 9345. IBM is still largely "Count-Key-Data", a concept which never seems to die. -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "G-Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
