Hello all. I wanted to revive this thread to relay this bit of news about hard drive warranties. Its not a new story (Dec 2011), and lots of you are already painfully aware of it, but others just starting to build out a system may not have seen it and this might alter some purchase decisions:
Effective at the start of 2012, newly-purchased Western Digital Caviar Blue, Caviar Green and Scorpio Blue hard drives have lost a year of coverage, dropping from three to two years. Seagate's product line of internal drives dropped from five years to one -- FOUR years of coverage gone. Seagate's hybrid drives (solid-state + spinning disk) lost two years, going from five to three years. Old drives purchased prior to the end of 2011 were not affected, I hear. Details can be seen in a NY Times article http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/20/seagate-wd-storage-warranty/ Other followup articles no doubt have come out since then, but this is a good place to start. -ap _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
