In Reply to: a 3-5 year warranty as opposed posted by LWR on July 25, 2014 at 12:17:51:
The warranty doesn't cover replacement of data. If you have your data properly backed up then the only concern with a drive failure is downtime and time and cost of replacement and restoring your data. Another problem with hard drive warranty claims is that your proprietary data is on the disk even if the unit isn't functional. Worse, because it isn't functional there isn't any way for you to securely wipe the drive. For this reason, I would never consider returning a disk drive under warranty if it had any personal data on it I didn't want to see published.
If you don't have your data properly backed up you will lose it sooner or later regardless of the brand or model of disk. But then, maybe you work for the IRS and want to lose it. :-)
Tony Lauck
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- RE: a 3-5 year warranty as opposed - Tony Lauck 07/25/1413:37:37 07/25/14 (2)
- I am talking about the confidence factor - LWR 14:00:16 07/25/14 (1)
- On 3 6TB drives - LWR 14:08:31 07/25/14 (0)