thp@relay.eu.net (Timothy H Panton.) (05/27/90)
al@escom.com (Al Donaldson) writes: > And I'm not sure I see any > real advantage to buying a 5 year warranty (HP, Fuji) if storage prices > keep dropping. I depends on how dependant you are on the machine/drive, I raised the 150,000 MTBF / 5year warranty issue after the _only_ drive on my _only_ Sun failed after 1.5 years (MTBF 30,000 hrs). I was without the machine for a week and spent the best part of 2 days restoring the backups onto its replacement, quite a few billable hours lost. The thing to do is to guess how long you expect to keep the drive and get one with a MTBF that is at least that long (twice to be safe.) Tim Panton, Westhawk Ltd. uucp : ..!mcvax!ukc!westhawk!thp