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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">I’d have to disagree with the earlier comment indicating drives will typically fail in the first 2 weeks if they’re going to fail.
For the multiple systems with multiple drive I administer I’ve seen drive failures occur from as little as a few months to longer than the warranty period. Since these are racked servers there is no ungentle handling occurring. I’ve seen similar on drives
in disk arrays. There isn’t usually a pattern one could discern. (Although years ago I did have on Sun array that had multiple drives failures over a few months – Sun eventually had us schedule replacements for all the disks because they’d determined there
was “diamond dust” in the air when they’d made that particular series of disks. Other arrays of the same type with same type of disk didn’t have this issue so it really was a bad batch of disks.)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold">From:</span></font></b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> ale-bounces@ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org]
<b><span style="font-weight:
bold">On Behalf Of </span></b>Jim Kinney<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, January 24, 2012 3:55 PM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> Re: [ale] OT - Hard Drive Warranties</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">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. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt">On Jan 24, 2012 2:07 PM, "Wolf Halton" <<a href="mailto:wolf.halton@gmail.com">wolf.halton@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">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
<st1:address w:st="on"><st1:Street w:st="on">box 10</st1:Street>-</st1:address>year warranties.<br>
I have the same feeling about new cars.<br>
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Call me crazy, <br>
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