Joshua D. Drake wrote: > > >> Well western digital and Seagate both carry 5 year warranties. Seagate I > >> believe does on almost all of there products. WD you have to pick the > >> right drive. > > > > That's nice, but it seems similar to my Toshiba laptop drive experience > > --- it breaks, we replace it. I would rather not have to replace it. :-) > > Laptop drives are known to have short lifespans do to heat. I have IDE > drives that have been running for four years without any issues but I > have good fans blowing over them. > > Frankly I think if you are running drivess (in a production environment) > for more then 3 years your crazy anyway :) Agreed --- the cost/benefit of keeping a drive >3 years just doesn't make sense. -- Bruce Momjian http://candle.pha.pa.us EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. +
