I am a firm believer in basic - comes with the box - warranties for hard drives<br>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.<br>
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.<br>I have the same feeling about new cars.<br><br>Call me crazy, <br>Wolf<br clear="all">
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