[ale] OT - Hard Drive Warranties

[David Tomaschik]

On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Wolf Halton <wolf.halton at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am a firm believer in basic - comes with the box - warranties for hard
> drives
> Though this is entirely anecdotal, I think most drives that are going to
> fail, fail during the first week or two.  If they don't fail by then, they
> will run at least 5 years, barring water damage, rough handling or other
> things that aren't covered by the extended warranties.  Thus a extra paid
> 5-year warranty makes no financial sense to me.
> After 5 years drives are more than likely to fail because their bearings go
> bad.  This is why there aren't any out of the box 10-year warranties.
> I have the same feeling about new cars.
>
> Call me crazy,
> Wolf

If you're interested in large-scale hard numbers evidence of drive
failures, Google has a fairly interesting paper here:
http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/research.google.com/en/us/archive/disk_failures.pdf



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