Support for Seagate SV35 Series?

PapaBear wrote:
We don't know most drives are not tested. We only know that most drives are not on the HCL. We do not know if that is because of problems encountered during the testing or whether they were not tested.

Not that i'm able to find the post, but i am pretty sure i saw someone, possibly the Jedi who left us, comment on the lack of drives in the HCL with a simple statement to the nature of so many drives, so little time. Either way. There is nothing wrong with the SV35 series, and the sparc generation ReadyNAS equipment. (I cant say for the rest)

PapaBear wrote:
It has a 3 year warranty, but I can not find anywhere, not even on the Seagate website what the warranty on the S35 is so I shall assume the same as all current consumer drives which is now reduced to 1 year.

Cant have been looking to hard. The SV35.5 series drives comes with a 5 year warranty. Go to the drive's page, click features, and it's on the right. Also, as i said, when speaking to the support, they don't recommend these drives for RAID environment, not due to them not being able to cope, but simply due to them being targeted at a lower power usage, and not delivering the top performance most seek when looking to go for a RAID.
By the way, These drives usually cost a few bucks extra, compared to what you get, and if one is willing to shell out such cash, you can get a WD drive with a 5 year warranty as well. Just trying to be fair. Pretty much "any" enterprise drive is available at a 5 year warranty price point.

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