Reply to post: Re: Service Life of HD

Kryder's law craps out: Race to uber-cheap storage is voer

Rob Isrob

Re: Service Life of HD

> IOW, they didn't have a good reason to build a seven-year drive.

Well.. this is like the 100 miles per gallon carburetor, it doesn't exist but fun to speculate none-the-less. I'd speculate that if vendor A were to deliver a 7 year warrantied hard drive, they would have captured a large segment of the marketplace (other factors being equal). The reason to go beyond 5 years is there and always has been.

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