Re: Seagate drive quality (announcement)

2008-12-17 Thread Dan
At 8:27 AM -0700 12/17/2008, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Dec 16, 2008, at 7:41 PM, Dan wrote: Then some non-volatile RAM (flash of one type or another) for the next n YB. Wowsa! YottaBytes! isn't that, like the library of congress in high def facsimile AND a redundant backup of all the pr0n in

Re: Seagate drive quality (announcement)

2008-12-17 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Dec 16, 2008, at 7:41 PM, Dan wrote: Then some non-volatile RAM (flash of one type or another) for the next n YB. Wowsa! YottaBytes! isn't that, like the library of congress in high def facsimile AND a redundant backup of all the pr0n in the world? 8-) -- Bruce Johnson University of

Re: Seagate drive quality (announcement)

2008-12-16 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 12/16/08 10:46 AM, Dan dantear...@gmail.com Broadcast into the ether: What's next? A 23% repair rate on Mac laptops? Smaller crackers in the box for the same price? I know, 3.5 oz yogurt in the 6 oz cup! Actually. During the last survey done in 2007 the repair rate on Apple laptops was

Re: Seagate drive quality (announcement)

2008-12-16 Thread James E. Therrault
Dan wrote: Well, I guess this means all bets are off. To me, Seagate was a name that indicated drives of the highest quality... but if the company doesn't have faith in their own products... http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2008/12/12/seagate_cuts_bare_drive_warranty/ For products

Re: Seagate drive quality (announcement)

2008-12-16 Thread Dan
At 5:10 PM -0600 12/16/2008, James E. Therrault wrote: Ain't it time for the primitive mechanical drive to be replaced by a solid state equivalent? Reliability issues aside, yea right - over the dead bodies of the current drive manufacturers. OTOH, 25c per GB vs $5+ per GB... OTGH... Have