title: use Seagate; link: https://onemoretech.wordpress.com/2009/09/10/use-seagate/ author: lembobro description: post_id: 252 created: 2009/09/10 15:31:25 created_gmt: 2009/09/10 15:31:25 comment_status: open post_name: use-seagate status: publish post_type: post

use Seagate;

No. It’s not a perl module. It’s a hardware brand. One that I’m going to endorse right now with absolutely no incentive of any kind from the company.

Not so much for anything they’ve done, so much as what their competitors have failed to do.

Many, many years ago one of their famous competitors started a marketing campaign that included a great warranty program. Basically the deal was that if one of their hard disk drives failed within 3 years of purchase, they’d replace it free of charge.

That policy still holds, although the warranty period has been extended to 5 years for their higher-end devices.

The one that failed the other night was made by that manufacturer. It was only 2 years old. Ironically the Seagate disk that’s been in the same box for almost 4 years now is still chugging along nicely.

While I’ll be making a warranty claim on the other manufacturer’s drive, long experience tells me that the replacement will probably last about as long as the original.

And then there’s the hassle of having to spend hours recovering my data off a bad drive.

Lesson learned.

From now on I buy only Seagate.

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