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  • bonez's avatar
    bonez
    Aspirant
    Dec 30, 2008
    phrozen wrote:
    It turns out that Seagate is dropping their warranties from 5 years to 3 years on Jan 3, 2009. I've got these drives now. If I return them and upgrade later, I'll only end up getting screwed on the warranty. Might as well give it a shot...


    Yeah, definitely my predicament as well and why I pushed buy. Now I have two with reallocated sectors. Trying to decide whether to return to Amazon or RMA. Since I bought 5, guessing I can return and get new vs. RMA...but not sure it's worth it given the 2 years of additional warranty service I may be foregoing...
  • sgirard's avatar
    sgirard
    Tutor
    Dec 30, 2008
    For those that are interested, TigerDirect.ca has these drives on sale this week for not bad price for 159.99. I just may buy two to fully populate my NV+. :D
  • iProb8's avatar
    iProb8
    Guide
    Dec 30, 2008
    phrozen wrote:
    bonez wrote:


    It turns out that Seagate is dropping their warranties from 5 years to 3 years on Jan 3, 2009. I've got these drives now. If I return them and upgrade later, I'll only end up getting screwed on the warranty. Might as well give it a shot...


    From where did you get that information?
  • iProb8's avatar
    iProb8
    Guide
    Dec 30, 2008
    phrozen wrote:
    iProb8 wrote:
    phrozen wrote:

    From where did you get that information?


    http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/suppor ... ty_matrix/


    Thanks. That's a real disappointment. I have preferred Seagate drives due to the 5-year warranty. IMHO, reducing the length of the warranty to only 3 years puts Seagate on par with the other drive manufacturers, which means I'll just end up buying whichever drive is least expensive at the time.

    Having just bought four of the 1.5TB drives last week and two of them showing some error messages, I'm wondering whether I ought to take advantage of the low ($129USD) pricing and 5-year warranty and pick up a spare or two in the next day or two. Thoughts?
  • BigMike1's avatar
    BigMike1
    Tutor
    Dec 30, 2008
    I have seen this on Seagate data sheets in the past, when they talk about best applications for their drives ...

    "Desktop RAID 1 or 0 systems (less than 3 drives in one system). "

    If that is still what they mean by desktop raid, then you might use these in a Duo, but not in a 4-drive or larger NAS. They want you to use enterprise level drives in larger arrays. And, note that the 5 year warranty will remain as is for the enterprise drives.
  • egoldy's avatar
    egoldy
    Aspirant
    Dec 30, 2008
    All -

    This is an interesting thread as I just had ordered four Samsung 1 TB drives as they were on sale for $99 each and recommended:

    http://www.etech4sale.com/433949/samsun ... 3.5in.html

    I would have loved to buy four 1.5 tb drives, but Infrant said that they weren't recommended or covered. Has Infrant changed their tunes on this? I'd love to have the extra storage, but I don't want to chance the thing crashing or losing the data altogether.


    What's the concensus of the big brains here? Should I stick with my 1TB drives? When does everyone realistically think we'll be able to put higher capacity drives in these machines?

    Thanks,

    Eric
  • bonez's avatar
    bonez
    Aspirant
    Dec 31, 2008
    Thought I'd report back that I'm holding stable after a few days with no more reallocated sectors and no spin retries on SD1A firmware. Been burning it in (copy 2TB on, copy 2TB off, stream movies, etc.) so it's been under quite a bit of load.

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