[ale] difference among Seagate, WesternDigital & Maxtor ?

[Jim Lynch]

Every WD drive I've bought in the last 2-3 years has had an option to 
upgrade to a 3 year warranty for something like $10-$15.  It was a slip 
of paper in the box pointed you to a web site to register.  I've never 
done it.

Installed right now are (5 different computers)
1 160 Gb
3 120 Gb
1 80 Gb
1 40 Gb
1 30 Gb
1 8 Gb
1 5 Gb
and just this week I took a 2 Gb and a 1 Gb out of service.  I took the 
500 Mb out of service about 6 months ago.  All were working and all are 
WD drives.

Jim.
Geoffrey wrote:

>Brian MacLeod wrote:
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>>Ditto on the Seagates. They also are likely to come with longer warranties
>>(usually 5 yr) compared to the others (particularly WD/Maxtor) who only give
>>you 1 yr.
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>Unless you purchase the WD 10k rpm sata drive, comes with 3 or 5, don't 
>recall right at this point.
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