James Knott wrote:
Although you can purchase insurance type warranties, you can't really compare life insurance with a product warranty. We all know that most of us will die eventually
most HDrive will die :-(, the only question is when? same for us. for any manufacturer any _long_ term waranty is a bet on the future. They bet the additional benefit from additional sells will take over the drawback of disk failure.
disk makers are few and we can hope they can survive more than 5 years (the maker, not the drive :-), but it's only a bet.
you may be quite sure the _dealer_ you buy the drive from will not be alive in 5 years, hope the maker will...
see your insurance dealer, you _can_ take a life insurance _for your drive_, may be it will be cheaper than the extra cost from the manufacturer
In fact I barely understand why all these usb cheap drives are not raid 1, because nobody care is the drive, but cares on the data :-)
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