[luau] Western DIgital Drives / Hard drives in general

[yuser at hi.net]

There are some drives still floating around with a 3 year warranty.  I 
believe they are left overs.  I just bought a Maxtor 6Y080L0 yesterday 
with 3 years.  WD makes a special edition series that offers decent 
performance, price and a 3 year warranty.  In fact CircuitCity on the 
mainland had a 80GB for $79 after rebates recently, not bad for a 80GB 
UDMA5 7200RPM drive and way cheaper then anything listed at 
Pricewatch.com. 
(http://www.wdc.com/products/Products.asp?DriveID=27)

Of course WD now has an extended warranty program too, imagine that.
(http://websupport.wdc.com/store/extwarranty/index.asp)

You are dead on with the SCSI suggestion.  I have a few older 10K Cheetahs  
in my Win machine that are still kicking great.

On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Robert Green wrote:

> Are all industry hard drive warrantees now shortened to 1 year? Are
> any of the drives carrying longer warrantees?
> 
> Aloha,
> 
> Rob