To Mat@LaCie

[Ed Dooley]

David,
I was responding to your statement (the one I quoted, and again below), where you said Consumer level drives carry a one year warranty. That’s just plain wrong, not an omission.
I quoted Seagate’s warranty information as prove it was wrong. I also used Maxtor’s 3 year warranty to correct the wrong information. I had no opinion
about all the other, so no skirting either. 🙂
Ed

[Ed] “[David Roth Weiss] “Consumer-level drives carry only a one year warranty and an average life of only 100,000 hours, while enterpise-level drives carry a five year warranty with an average life of 500,000 hours — that’s a 500% difference no mater how you slice it,””

[Don Greening]

Thank you to Steve, Walter, Ed, David, Arnie, and especially Mat for your input. All your comments were informative and insightful.

Mat, if you’re on vacation then you’re not supposed to bring your laptop with you. I think there’s a law about this somewhere. Please put it back in your suitcase and forget you’ve got it with you 🙂 And thanks for your feedback.

My FW drive problem is not he end of the world. I’ll take it back to the local vendor and get another one. The statements about the differences between consumer and industrial strength hardware was something I wasn’t aware of and this fact will play a huge role in my next big “Med