----- Original Message ----- From: "Thane Sherrington" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "The Hardware List" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2007 12:47 PM Subject: RE: [H] Seagate drive died
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.
I am not trying to be a smart ass or anything, but anyone who believes that WD EB's and BB's last as long as JB's are probably telling people that Dell uses quality parts, also. Once you nail down Dell in your mind to what they really are, the rest fall into their respective places, inferior to Dell. To qualify my statement about Dell, true, you can get premium parts if you order a unit that costs 1.5 or more times what a custom build with the same parts cost. Line for line Dell could not come close. But who besides me will even give a line item quote, custom builders included? And to boot I let customers bring their own parts and omit some of those lines if they want.
Chuck
