I believe that the biggest cause for data loss from people useing the
'cheap' drives is due to the fact that one 'cheap' drive holds the
capacity of 5 or so 'expensive' drives, and since people don't
realize this they don't realize that the time to rebuild the failed
drive onto a hot-spare is correspondingly longer.
Commodity HDs get 1 year warranties for the same reason enterprise HDs
get 5+ year warranties: the vendor's confidence that they are not
going to lose money honoring the warranty in question.
at least seagate gives 5 year warranties on their consumer drives.
Hitachi 3 years
Maxtor 3 years
Samsung 1-3 years depending on drive (but who buys samsung drives)
Seagate 5 years (300 Gig, 7200 RPM perpendicular recording... 89 bucks)
Western Digital 3-5 years depending on drive
Joshua D. Drake
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