[ale] OT - Hard Drive Warranties

[Jim Kinney]

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.
On Jan 24, 2012 2:07 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
>
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