Disk is cheap these days, and in order to make money I'm assuming they factor in a lower MTBF.<div><br></div><div>Warranty replacement on a cheap disk isn't going to kill the manufacturer.... Just annoying when they fail.</div>
<div><br></div><div><div><br></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 21 February 2013 08:46, Lonni J Friedman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:netllama@gmail.com" target="_blank">netllama@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 1:44 PM, Michael Hipp <<a href="mailto:michael@redmule.com">michael@redmule.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On 2013-02-20 3:38 PM, C M Reinehr wrote:<br>
>> Newegg is showing 17 3.5", 7200RPM internal hard drives from 500MB to 3TB,<br>
>> described as "for use in power-friendly consumer and commercial desktop<br>
>> computers", so it looks as if they're in the consumer market now.<br>
><br>
> Does this mean Toshiba==Western_Digital?<br>
><br>
> I've never had an opinion of Toshiba drives before, was wondering if they have<br>
> a good rep.<br>
<br>
</div>I've used a few Toshiba disks, but only in laptops, and enterprise<br>
class stuff. They were fine, but I doubt that's the same category as<br>
what you're considering.<br>
<br>
At this stage, I don't think there's a significant quality delta in<br>
any vendor's desktop class products.<br>
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