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From: blgardne@javelin.es.com (Blaine Gardner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: Re: Query: M.A.S.T., Fujitsu, Large capacity disk drives, DATs
Message-ID: <1991Mar8.160756.2962@javelin.es.com>
Date: 8 Mar 91 16:07:56 GMT
References: <1991Mar6.145948.17848@javelin.es.com> <1991Mar7.191718.8668@digi.lonestar.org>
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jgay@digi.lonestar.org (john gay) writes:

>From article <1991Mar6.145948.17848@javelin.es.com>, by blgardne@javelin.es.com (Blaine Gardner):
>> Both [fujitsu, hp > 1 GB] drives have a 2 year warranty as I remember. 

>Don't know anything as far as the hp drives, but the fujitsu drives have
>a 5 (yes, 5) year warranty.  Fujitsu also reports a MTBF of 200,000 hours
>(a little less than 23 years).  I don't know how they came up with that figure,
>but statics can't lie :) (or can they :)).

That's right, 5 years. I think the H-P is also 5 years. As to the MTBF
figure, I had the H-P die on me after a couple hundred hours. I'd say
the warranty carries a whole lot more weight than any overinflated MTBF
numbers. Both are nice drives, but I'd buy the Fujitsu myself because
it's faster, cheaper, and a little bigger.
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