[ale] OT - Hard Drive Warranties

[wolf.halton at gmail.com (Wolf Halton)]

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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