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Why "Yet another reason to avoid desktop RAID".

If that was enough, then we should not buy:

- set top boxes

- MP3 players

- mobile phones

- ...

- ...

- computers

- .... ad nauseum,

because if the DOAs and failures themselves don't get you down, then the service will.


I recently had my Acer Aspire 2TB Raid 5 NAS box indicate that a HDD had failed. Fortunately, reseating it fixed it all up.
However, if I was to avail myself of the warranty, I needed to send the WHOLE box back.
Now, why would I buy a NAS box if it needed to be down for several days. All I really should have to do was pull out the dud, send it off under warranty and let the box rebuild itself when I got the replacement back. Or better still, buy a spare and never be down except for the swap time (not hot-swap). I asserted myself and they agreed that a technician would do the replacement on site if required, though I am not sure that it would be free.
Posted by: Patanjali   Posted on: 12/05/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Sad but seemingly true ...  George Mitchell | 12/05/08
Started going downhill with the Maxtor merger  Dr. John | 12/05/08
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others worse  waltmaine | 12/08/08
Drive companies change over time...  zackers | 12/13/08
Thanks  LegendsOfBatman | 12/15/08
RE: Seagate's DRM code ?  Brent R Brian | 12/04/08
Unbelievable...  jmiller1978 | 12/08/08
'senior engineer at a cloud storage company'  GuidingLight | 12/04/08
Que?  Patanjali | 12/05/08
Great little NAS box by he way  Patanjali | 12/05/08
Any company using SATA drive ....  bjbrock | 12/05/08
Just checked, have about 90 1TB with SD15 sad  terry flores | 12/05/08
Why Order more drives?  jakesty | 12/14/08
MADE IN CHINA  NotMSUser | 12/05/08
RE: Seagate's  larahs | 12/08/08
wouldn't expect anythingn less since Maxtor Merge  Morphyous | 12/08/08
Maxtor used to be better than Seagate  914four | 12/08/08
RE: Maxtor used to be better than Seagate  jmiller1978 | 12/08/08
Yes, they started going downhill...  914four | 12/08/08
RE: Maxtor used to be better than Seagate  Racer9x | 12/08/08
Yup, Maxtor wasn't as reliable as Seagate  V@... | 12/12/08
Yup, Maxtor wasn't as reliable as Seagate  Devillin | 12/30/08
Not just Seagate...  Narg | 12/08/08
Not just Seagate!  green alien | 12/09/08
RE: Seagate's  pppaulll | 12/08/08
RE: Seagate's  John_Doe69 | 12/08/08
RE: Seagate's  Harron | 12/09/08
RE: Seagate's  Old Timer 8080 | 12/12/08
PATA Seagate HDD 500GB  michaelleo@... | 12/12/08
Firmware fix may only mask the problem  zackers | 12/13/08
Uhh, they've issued a fix, Download the firmware.  jakesty | 12/14/08
what? they have? link please  confuxion | 12/31/08
Because customers have a right to know what's really going on  zackers | 01/22/09
Class action lawusit  Need1176 | 06/01/09
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