RE: HDD Choices

[Marcus Warrington <marcus.warrington@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Warranties are fine but be aware that the replacement you get back is
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ly a refurb unit so I tend not to trust them in for important data, and
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d to use them in desktops instead.

Also I would *NEVER EVER EVER* buy a Fujitsu.
I had a friend who's hard drive went in his laptop. He asked me to look at
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it and when I checked the date of manufacture of the drive it was still
wit=
hin its 3 year warranty,=20

With every other hard drive I've had that needs replacement, its been a
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ple case of going onto the manufacturers website typing in the serial
numbe=
r to confirm its eligibility and then sending the drive off to them. With
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ujitsu that isn't the case, they will ONLY deal with the trade and you
must=
return the drive back to the shop who sold it to you !=20

So I told my friend to take it back to PCWorld, who said although their
war=
ranty was 12 months and applied to the laptop as a whole, so wouldn't
honou=
r the hard drive 3 year warranty... although they would "repair"
it for =A3=
70.


Marcus
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx]=20
> On Behalf Of Paul Gale
> Sent: 06 June 2009 10:04
> To: 'ukha_d@xxxxxxx'
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] HDD Choices
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> Whatever you do go for, I'd strongly recommend getting one=20
> with a longer warranty if you have the option?
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> That comes after replacing about 8 HDD's over the last year -=20
> all about 1-2 years old (I do have rather a lot of HDD's=20
> here!). Western Digital have a great advance replacement=20
> warranty too that I've used a lot.
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> Paul.
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx=20
> [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf=20
> > Of Tim Hawes
> > Sent: 06 June 2009 07:15
> > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: [ukha_d] HDD Choices
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> > Wow, 10 degrees is quite a difference.
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> > Thanks,
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> > Tim.
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> > On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Phil Harris<phil@xxxxxxx>
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> > > In my server at the moment...
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> > > 10 x WD10EACS "Green Power" drives running at 28
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> +- 1 degree
> > > 2 x Samsung F1 drives running at 26 degrees +- 1 degree
> > > 1 x Hitachi Deskstar 1Tb drive running at 36 degrees
> > > 1 x Seagate 1.5Tb drive running at 32 degrees.
> > >
> > > Phil
> > >
> > >> -----Original Message-----
> > >> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On
> > Behalf
> > >> Of Ian Oliver
> > >> Sent: 05 June 2009 15:18
> > >> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> > >> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] HDD Choices
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> > >> In article
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> <2829695e0906050624q7e3030e3s6baced191ca4bbfe@xxxxxxx>, Tim=20
> > >> Hawes wrote:
> > >> > Initially the 1TB ones will just be used for
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> backup, but
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> > >> > all likelyhood they'll end up a NAS box sooner
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> > so
> > >> > the cooler drives would definately be better.
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> > >> I use the Hitachi Deskstar 1TB for non-spinning
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> and 4x1TB=20
> > >> WD Greenpower in my NAS box.
> > >>
> > >> Ian Oliver
> > >> Sunny Leeds, UK
> > >> Using Java on Tini for control via Dallas 1-wire
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