<p>A $20 extra warranty for a $100 drive doesn't pay for the real expense of recovering data or even doing a restore. The replacement drive is often/usually a refurbished one so you're no better off than before the failure. </p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 24, 2012 2:07 PM, "Wolf Halton" <<a href="mailto:wolf.halton@gmail.com">wolf.halton@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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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