At 12:30 PM 13/05/2007, Greg Sevart wrote:
In short: A drive with a 1-year warranty is no more or less reliable than a drive with a 5-year warranty.
While your argument seems sound, it doesn't appear to agree with real world testing. I have seen EB and BB drives fail by a factor of at least a factor of 5 over JB drives. The EB/BB line are WD's one year warranty drives (with 2MB cache) while the JBs are the 3 year warranty drives (with 8MB cache.) So there is clearly a difference in quality, as my experience is based over several years with hundreds of drives.
T
