http://www.joshoakhurst.com/2006/01/01/seagate-and-maxtor-merge/ An Ongoing Case Study in Art & Commerce Fri, 05 Sep 2008 22:12:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.joshoakhurst.com/2006/01/01/seagate-and-maxtor-merge/#comment-5983 glenneroo Wed, 03 Jan 2007 17:09:21 +0000 http://www.joshoakhurst.com/?p=4#comment-5983 no kidding about the warranties crap! Thats why its best to buy a 5 yr warranty Seagate + external enclosure for $20-50 and if it dies, take it out, send it in, voila new drive! Btw i've lost 5 out of 11 external hard drives in the last 5 years, amounting to 2 TB of data so far. I only use external drives for backup anymore, anything else is unwise. My most recent lost was a WD passport 80gb drive, which also had a 1yr warranty on it and died 2 weeks after the warranty went out. These 2.5" drives are supposed to be considerably more rugged than their 3.5" counterparts, thus the higher price and why they're in laptops.. and i frequently work on my laptop whilst in the train, airplane, in my backpack (rendering something while i'm going somewhere) etc. and never had a problem yet in 5 years! Go figure. no kidding about the warranties crap! Thats why its best to buy a 5 yr warranty Seagate + external enclosure for $20-50 and if it dies, take it out, send it in, voila new drive! Btw i’ve lost 5 out of 11 external hard drives in the last 5 years, amounting to 2 TB of data so far. I only use external drives for backup anymore, anything else is unwise. My most recent lost was a WD passport 80gb drive, which also had a 1yr warranty on it and died 2 weeks after the warranty went out. These 2.5″ drives are supposed to be considerably more rugged than their 3.5″ counterparts, thus the higher price and why they’re in laptops.. and i frequently work on my laptop whilst in the train, airplane, in my backpack (rendering something while i’m going somewhere) etc. and never had a problem yet in 5 years! Go figure.

]]> http://www.joshoakhurst.com/2006/01/01/seagate-and-maxtor-merge/#comment-5940 Josh Oakhurst Official Site Tue, 02 Jan 2007 16:29:15 +0000 http://www.joshoakhurst.com/?p=4#comment-5940 [...] Happy New Year from Vancouver, B.C. Canada where Kristine and I are holed up finishing a screenplay and celebrating the first birthday of JODOTCOM. [...] [...] Happy New Year from Vancouver, B.C. Canada where Kristine and I are holed up finishing a screenplay and celebrating the first birthday of JODOTCOM. [...]

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